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Who makes prescribing decisions in hospital inpatients? An observational study.
Ross S, Hamilton L, Ryan C, Bond C. Postgrad Med J. 2012;8:507-510.

This study discovered that decision-making and actual writing of prescriptions are not always performed by the same provider.
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