Evaluating clinical pharmacy services on a surgical patient‐care area: a nurses' satisfaction survey

Objectives  To determine nurses' perceptions and expectations of clinical pharmacists prior to, and 9 months after, clinical pharmacy services were introduced on two general and gastrointestinal surgery hospital wards in Canada.

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