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Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections
State of the Art

Can Managed Health Care Help Manage Health-Care-Associated Infections?

Richard Platt*Comments to Author  and Blake Caldwell†
Author affiliations: *Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Figure 1

Stage of pregnancy at which group B streptococcal screening specimen was obtained. A prompt shift from second trimester (squares) to weeks 35 to 37 (diamonds) of pregnancy occurred after new guidelines were introduced at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound (4).

Figure 1. . Stage of pregnancy at which group B streptococcal screening specimen was obtained. A prompt shift from second trimester (squares) to weeks 35 to 37 (diamonds) of pregnancy occurred after new guidelines were introduced at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound (4).

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