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. 2015 May-Jun;68(3):232-7.
doi: 10.4212/cjhp.v68i3.1457.

An Introduction to Health Care Administrative Data

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An Introduction to Health Care Administrative Data

Suzanne M Cadarette et al. Can J Hosp Pharm. 2015 May-Jun.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Number of pharmacy smoking cessation claims for a first consultation (bar graph, categorized by age group) and cumulative number of unique patients (solid line, n = 7767) and unique pharmacies (dashed line, n = 1253), for the period September 2011 to September 2013. Please refer to the article by Wong and others for details of the descriptive analysis of the Ontario Pharmacy Smoking Cessation Program.

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