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Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies: Challenges and Opportunities for Health-System Pharmacists
Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies: Challenges and Opportunities for Health-System Pharmacists
Author JoAnn Stubbings discusses with William Zellmer, Contributing Editor for AJHP, the structure of the Food and Drug Administration’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) program for medications and the challenges and opportunities that the program presents to health-system pharmacists. The article under discussion appears in the September 15, 2010, issue of AJHP.
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