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Night pain in arthritis: patients at risk from prescribed night sedation.
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1Division of Emergency Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada M1G 1X8 2Department of Paediatrics and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5T 3M7 3Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02 115, USA 4Cleveland Clinic Le...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107689108400206