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How to increase return on investment of the intensive care pharmacist – fear of flying

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We are indebted for his assistance in preparing this manuscript to Professor Ross J. Baldessarini, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, who (even without the prior necessity for financial analyses) has for many years been active in the integration of psychiatric specialists, PharmD clinical pharmacists and their trainees into the Psychopharmacology Service that he directs at the McLean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital.

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  1. Pharmacy and Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Erlanger Allee 101, 07740, Jena, Germany

    Michael Hartmann

  2. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Helios-Klinikum Erfurt, Nordhaeuser Strasse 74, 99089, Erfurt, Germany

    Andreas Meier-Hellmann

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Hartmann, M., Meier-Hellmann, A. How to increase return on investment of the intensive care pharmacist – fear of flying. Intensive Care Med 32, 511–515 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-006-0072-2

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