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Reducing Cost at the Expense of Quality?

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  1. Gwent Health Commission, Mamhilad House, Mamhilad Park Estale, Pontypool, Gwent, NP4 OYP, Wales, Germany

    Roger Walker (Director of Pharmaceutical Public Health)

  2. Wales and University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, Germany

    Roger Walker (Director of Pharmaceutical Public Health)

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Walker, R. Generic Medicines. Pharmacoeconomics 7, 375–377 (1995). https://doi.org/10.2165/00019053-199507050-00001

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