Updated 2012 Beers Criteria: What's Noteworthy and Cautionary?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 768-769

  Beier, Manju T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 84868379419     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2012.08.005     Document Type: Editorial

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