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Original article

Vol. 143 No. 4344 (2013)

Costs of current antihypertensive therapy in Switzerland: an economic evaluation of 3,489 patients in primary care

  • Hans Hendrik Schäfer
  • Uta Scheunert
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2013.13854
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2013;143:w13854
Published
20.10.2013

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