Improving the Quality of Medication Use in Elderly Patients
- 12 August 2002
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 162 (15) , 1670-1672
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.162.15.1670
Abstract
The best way to get rid of a problem is to hold it up to the bright light and look at it from all sides. —Andy RooneyTHE QUALITY of medication prescribing and uThis publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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