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Florence Tubach¹, Véronique Lamarque-Garnier², Anne Castot³

¹AP-HP, Centre de Pharmaco-épidémiologie, Paris, France ; AP-HP, Hôpital Bichat, Département d'Épidémiologie Biostatistique et Recherche Clinique, Paris, France ; Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France ; INSERM, CIE 801, Paris, France.

|July 10, 2016

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pharmaco-épidémiologie plans de gestion de risque risque médicamenteux études de sécurité post-AMM

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