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A nurse-led intervention for identification of drug-related problems

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Stockholm Söder Hospital and the Drug & Therapeutics Committee, Stockholm South, Stockholm County Council, for financial support, and the participating nurses and physicians for making this project possible.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

    Monica Bergqvist, Johanna Ulfvarson, Eva Andersen Karlsson & Christer von Bahr

  2. Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Södersjukhuset, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

    Monica Bergqvist

  3. Department of Neurology, Biology, Care, Science and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

    Johanna Ulfvarson

  4. Karolinska Institutet, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

    Eva Andersen Karlsson & Christer von Bahr

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Bergqvist, M., Ulfvarson, J., Andersen Karlsson, E. et al. A nurse-led intervention for identification of drug-related problems. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 64, 451–456 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00228-007-0449-3

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