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[Medication errors after hospitalisation due to multi-dose drug dispensing in the primary sector]

Charlotte Lysen1, Carsten Hendriksen, Mette Straarup Faxholm

  • 1Klinisk Farmakologisk Afdeling, Bispebjerg Hospital, 2400 København NV, Denmark.

Ugeskrift for Laeger
|August 19, 2011
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