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Review
. 2018 Feb;41(1):14-19.
doi: 10.18773/austprescr.2018.001. Epub 2018 Feb 1.

Prescribing for polymyalgia rheumatica

David F Liew  1 , Claire E Owen  1 , Russell R Buchanan  1
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Review

Prescribing for polymyalgia rheumatica

David F Liew et al. Aust Prescr. 2018 Feb.
No abstract available

Keywords: corticosteroids; giant cell arteritis; methotrexate; polymyalgia rheumatica; prednisolone.

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Conflict of interest statement

David Liew attended Editorial Executive Committee meetings as the clinical pharmacology registrar for Australian Prescriber in 2017. He is supported by the Ronald John Gleghorn Bursary through the University of Melbourne.

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