'Digoxin as directed': Instructions for disaster

Hospital Pharmacy

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1230-1233

  Dunn, Eddie B ^a   Wolfe, Jonathan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN;

DIGITALIZATION; DIGOXIN BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG OVERDOSE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0029962645     PISSN: 00185787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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