Tablet spitting: Much ado aout nothing?

Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 272-274

  Navarro, Robert P ^a  

^a Navarro Pharma LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LISINOPRIL; WARFARIN;

DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE COST; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MANAGED CARE; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PHARMACIST; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; TABLET FORMULATION; TABLET SPLITTING; CHEMISTRY; DRUG FORMULATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; TABLET;

CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; DRUG COMPOUNDING; QUALITY CONTROL; TABLETS;

EID: 65449124659     PISSN: 10834087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18553/jmcp.2009.15.3.272     Document Type: Note

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