Medication reviews in nursing homes: Documenting and classifying the activities of a pharmacist

Pharmaceutical Journal

Volumn 261, Issue 7009, 1998, Pages 320-323

  Furniss, Lee ^a,c,e   Craig, Sarah K L ^a,d   Scobie, Susan ^b   Cooke, Jonathan ^b   Burns, Alistair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c British National Formulary   (United Kingdom)

^d Royal Pharmaceutical Society ^*

^e ROYAL PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

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