Factors predicting hospital readmissions related to adverse drug reactions
✍ Scribed by Borja Ruiz; Montserrat García; Urko Aguirre; Carmelo Aguirre
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-6970
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