The variability and quality of medication container labels.

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Published in Arch Intern Med on September 10, 2007

Authors

William H Shrank1, Jessica Agnew-Blais, Niteesh K Choudhry, Michael S Wolf, Aaron S Kesselheim, Jerry Avorn, Paul Shekelle

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1620 Tremont St, Ste 3030, Boston, MA 02120, USA. wshrank@partners.org

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