Adverse drug reactions as cause of hospital admissions: results from the Italian Group of Pharmacoepidemiology in the Elderly (GIFA).

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Published in J Am Geriatr Soc on December 01, 2002

Authors

Graziano Onder1, Claudio Pedone, Francesco Landi, Matteo Cesari, Cecilia Della Vedova, Roberto Bernabei, Giovanni Gambassi

Author Affiliations

1: Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Sticht Center on Aging, Wake Forest University-Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA. graziano_onder@rm.unicatt.it

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