How to stay on the right side of the infection control code.

Sarah Harrison

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How to stay on the right side of the infection control code.

June 23, 2009

Harrison S. Nurs Stand. 2016;19(38):14-16.

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This article reports on a British code of practice that could cause nurses to be held legally accountable for poor infection control.

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