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Developing a method to identify medicines non-adherence in a community sample of adults with epilepsy

W Henry Smithson1, Debbie Hukins, Brigitte Colwell

  • 1Academic Unit of Primary Medical Care, Medical School, Sheffield, UK. henry.smithson@sheffield.ac.uk

Epilepsy & Behavior : E&B
|April 13, 2012
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