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Difficulties Reducing Inappropriate Prescribing of Proton Pump Inhibitors in the Elderly

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Ms Emily Reeve’s PhD candidacy (during which this letter was written) is funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA). The authors received no other funding and have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this letter.

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  1. School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences and Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia

    Emily Reeve & Michael D. Wiese

  2. Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia

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Reeve, E., Wiese, M.D. Difficulties Reducing Inappropriate Prescribing of Proton Pump Inhibitors in the Elderly. Drugs Aging 29, 925–926 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40266-012-0024-1

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