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The recent publication of a history of the Children’s Hospital, Boston (1), coupled with the approach of my fifteenth anniversary as hospital epidemiologist at that venerable institution, has prompted me to search for lessons in the Hospital’s past, to critically examine the present situation, and to set priorities for the future.
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Goldmann, D.A. (1990). Pediatric Infection Control -- An Historical Perspective. In: Cundy, K.R., Kleger, B., Hinks, E.T., Miller, L.A. (eds) Infection Control. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5724-7_1
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