Fraud or flawed ? At the end of the day it may be the patient who pays the bill !

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1204-1206

  Kranke, Peter ^a   Wallenborn, Jan ^b   Roewer, Norbert ^a   Eberhart, Leopold H J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b HELIOS Clinic Aue   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CYTOCHROME P450 2D6; DOLASETRON MESILATE; GRANISETRON; ONDANSETRON; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST; TROPISETRON;

DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MARKETING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LETTER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PHARMACOGENETICS; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; SEROTONIN 5-HT3 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS;

EID: 84860783540     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2012.04.010     Document Type: Letter

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