Prescription audit in the inpatients of a tertiary care hospital attached with medical college

@inproceedings{Darji2015PrescriptionAI,
  title={Prescription audit in the inpatients of a tertiary care hospital attached with medical college},
  author={Nishita H. Darji and Hardik V. Vaniya and Chintan Doshi and Rutvij H Hedamba and Shilpa P. Jadav and Hiren R. Trivedi},
  year={2015},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:11746092}
}
Data generated on morbidity pattern coupled with current practices of treatment of these diseases provides an objective basis for preparing an NLEM and concludes that poly-pharmacy is quite common in India.
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