The medication appropriateness index at 20: where it started, where it has been, and where it may be going.

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Published in Drugs Aging on November 01, 2013

Authors

Joseph T Hanlon1, Kenneth E Schmader

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, jth14@pitt.edu.

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