Do patients see, read and retain the new mandatory medicines information leaflets?

Pharmaceutical Journal

Volumn 264, Issue 7083, 2000, Pages 268-270

  Raynor, D K ^a   Knapp, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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