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  1. Pharmacy Managed Care, First Health Services Corporation, 4300 Cox Road, Glen Allen, Virginia, 23060, USA

    Albert I. Wertheimer & Knte B. Andrews

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Wertheimer, A.I., Andrews, K.B. The Economics of Mail Service Pharmacy. Pharmacoeconomics 7, 111–118 (1995). https://doi.org/10.2165/00019053-199507020-00003

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