survey of environmental cleaning in thai hospitals 1253 acknowledgments
Financial support: A.A. and T.K. were supported by the National Research University Project of the Thailand Office of Higher Education Commission. Potential conflicts of interest: All authors report no conflicts of interest rele-
vant to this article. Affiliations: 1. Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand; 2. Uni-
versity of North Carolina, Gillings School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; 3. Center for Clinical Management Research, Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 4. University of Michigan Division of Hospital Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Address correspondence to Anucha Apisarnthanarak, MD, Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
(
anapisarn@yahoo.com). Received April 21, 2017; accepted July 11, 2017
© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 0899-823X/2017/3810-0018. DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.171
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