Anticoagulant Prescriptions Provided in US Ambulatory Practice, 2014 to 2016.

J Gen Intern Med

Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Published: October 2022

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