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Pharmacotherapeutic disparities: Racial, ethnic, and sex variations in medication treatment
Pharmacotherapeutic disparities: Racial, ethnic, and sex variations in medication treatment
Author Elizabeth Hall-Lipsy discusses disparities in medication treatment with William Zellmer, Contributing Editor for AJHP. Ms. Hall-Lipsy describes the research she conducted with Dr. Marie Chisholm-Burns into the relationships between pharmacotherapeutic disparities and the race, ethnicity, and sex of patients.
The article under discussion appears in the March 15, 2010, issue of AJHP.
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