Prescribing for Older People

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2008 Mar 15

PMID 18340075

Citations 98

Authors

James C Milton

Ian Hill-Smith

Stephen H D Jackson

Affiliations

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Citing Articles

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