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Hospitals have had enormous economic and sociological importance in the United States. The roughly six thousand community hospitals in the United States account for more than 4% of the gross national product. Hospitals directly employ more than three million persons. In addition, hundreds of thousands of people are employed providing goods and services to the hospital industry, along with more than 300,000 physicians.1,2,4
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Mortensen, J.E. (1994). Is One Laboratory in Town Enough?. In: Poupard, J.A., Walsh, L.R., Kleger, B. (eds) Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 349. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9206-5_12
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