Rate, type, and cost of adverse drug reactions in emergency department admissions
✍ Scribed by Jean-Blaise Wasserfallen; Françoise Livio; Thierry Buclin; Laurent Tillet; Bertrand Yersin; Jérôme Biollaz
- Book ID
- 117644142
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 66 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0953-6205
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