Benzodiazepine prescription and length of hospital stay at a Japanese university hospital

BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Nakao, Mutsuhiro ^a,b   Sato, Mikiya ^a   Nomura, Kyoko ^a,b   Yano, Eiji ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

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EID: 84864367697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17510759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0759-3-10     Document Type: Article

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