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Editorial
. 2017 Jan;24(1):5-6.
doi: 10.1136/ejhpharm-2016-001044.

Polypharmacy management programmes: the SIMPATHY Project

Alpana Mair  1 , Fernando Fernandez-Llimos  2 ; SIMPATHY Consortium
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Editorial

Polypharmacy management programmes: the SIMPATHY Project

Alpana Mair et al. Eur J Hosp Pharm. 2017 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: Evidence based medicine; MEDICAL ERRORS.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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