Hospital Information Systems and the Quality of Therapeutics

T. F. Blaschke

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1634786

Methods of Information in Medicine, Table of Contents

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^*

¹Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA, U.S.A

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