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. 1994 Apr 2;308(6933):901–905. doi: 10.1136/bmj.308.6933.901

How can hospitals ration drugs? Drug rationing in a teaching hospital: a method to assign priorities. Drug Committee of the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

F Bochner 1, E D Martin 1, N G Burgess 1, A A Somogyi 1, G M Misan 1
PMCID: PMC2539814  PMID: 8173373

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