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

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

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

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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).
 


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