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Medical teams are key to patient safety
12-28-2006 · EurekAlert!Medical teams -- not individuals -- are critical to the prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections, as well as for the overall health, safety, and welfare of patients, according to an editorial by two Virginia Commonwealth University physicians published in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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