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Risk of potential drug-drug interactions in the cardiac intensive care units

A comparative analysis between 2 tertiary care hospitals

Faisal Shakeel, Jamshaid A. Khan, Muhammad Aamir, Peer A. Hannan, Sabahat Zehra and Irfan Ullah
Saudi Medical Journal December 2018, 39 (12) 1207-1212; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.12.23430
Faisal Shakeel
From the Department of Pharmacy (Shakeel, Hannan, Ullah, Aamir), Sarhad University of Science and IT, and the Department of Pharmacy (Khan, Zehra), University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
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Jamshaid A. Khan
From the Department of Pharmacy (Shakeel, Hannan, Ullah, Aamir), Sarhad University of Science and IT, and the Department of Pharmacy (Khan, Zehra), University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
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Muhammad Aamir
From the Department of Pharmacy (Shakeel, Hannan, Ullah, Aamir), Sarhad University of Science and IT, and the Department of Pharmacy (Khan, Zehra), University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
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Peer A. Hannan
From the Department of Pharmacy (Shakeel, Hannan, Ullah, Aamir), Sarhad University of Science and IT, and the Department of Pharmacy (Khan, Zehra), University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
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Sabahat Zehra
From the Department of Pharmacy (Shakeel, Hannan, Ullah, Aamir), Sarhad University of Science and IT, and the Department of Pharmacy (Khan, Zehra), University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
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Irfan Ullah
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