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Oral paracetamol dosing in hospitalised children in the UK
1Pain Service, Department of Anaesthesia, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK jennie.craske@alderhey.nhs.uk.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
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