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Original Research

A System Dynamics Approach to Workload Management of Hospital Pharmacy Staff: Modeling the Tradeoff between Dispensing Backlog and Dispensing Errors

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Pages 209-224 | Received 18 Jan 2018, Accepted 30 Nov 2018, Published online: 13 Jan 2019

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