Focusing on Basics, Including Drug-Use Policy, Remains Important for Today's P&T Committee.
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Over the past few years, P&T committees have been evolving to deal with care at expanding sites within an organization, across a larger system, or involving multiple organizations. The authors consider one aspect of this expansion-medication system failures-that requires the attention of P&T policy.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- P & T : a peer-reviewed journal for formulary management
دوره 42 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017