Comment on: Decrease of anticholinergic drug use in nursing home residents in the United States
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1532-5415', '0002-8614']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.17182