Suboptimal prescribing in elderly outpatients: potentially harmful drug-drug and drug-disease combinations.

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Published in J Am Geriatr Soc on February 01, 2005

Authors

Chunliu Zhan1, Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo, Arlene S Bierman, Judy Sangl, Marlene R Miller, Stephen W Wickizer, Daniel Stryer

Author Affiliations

1: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA. czhan@ahrq.gov <czhan@ahrq.gov>

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