Are preventive drugs preventive enough
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Are preventive drugs preventive enough? A study of patients' expectation of benefit from preventive drugs.
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.3-1-84