Nurse prescribing of medicines in Western European and Anglo-Saxon countries: a systematic review of the literature.

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Published in BMC Health Serv Res on May 27, 2011

Authors

Marieke Kroezen1, Liset van Dijk, Peter P Groenewegen, Anneke L Francke

Author Affiliations

1: NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, PO Box 1568, 3500 BN Utrecht, The Netherlands. M.Kroezen@nivel.nl

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