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Methods Inf Med 1990; 29(03): 163-166
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634786
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Hospital Information Systems and the Quality of Therapeutics

T. F. Blaschke   *
1   Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA, U.S.A
› Author AffiliationsSupported in part by a grant from the National Center for Health Services Research and Technology Assessment (HS05263)
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07 February 2018 (online)

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* Visiting Scholar at the Department of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands


 

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