Measuring drug exposure: concordance between defined daily dose and days' supply depended on drug class
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0895-4356
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.05.026