Psychotropic Drug Practice In Nursing Homes

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• Publication year

  1988

• Venue

  Journal of The American Geriatrics Society

• Publication date

  1988-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1988.tb02379.xPMID 3283198
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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