The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 118, Issue 8 , Pages 885-889 , August 2005

Eliminating analgesic meperidine use with a supported formulary restriction

Received 18 November 2004 ,Accepted 28 January 2005.

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 The General Medicine Unit of the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester funded the statistical analysis.

PII: S0002-9343(05)00165-8

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2005.01.061

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 118, Issue 8 , Pages 885-889 , August 2005

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