Supply problems of unlicensed and off-label medicines after discharge
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Off‐label and unlicensed medicines to hospitalised children in Norway
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.093724