Providing a pharmacy service to the over 75s - Need they be visited at home?

Pharmaceutical Journal

Volumn 262, Issue 7050, 1999, Pages 888-890

  Oxley, David ^a  

^a Bradford Health Authority   (United Kingdom)

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