Are medications safely used by residents in elderly care homes? – A multi-centre observational study from Sri Lanka

• S. M. S. Prasanna ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

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• T. S. B. Cader ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

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• S. Sabalingam,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

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• L. G. T. Shanika ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: L. G. T. Shanika, N. R. Samaranayake

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

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• N. R. Samaranayake

  Contributed equally to this work with: L. G. T. Shanika, N. R. Samaranayake

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nithushi@sjp.ac.lk

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3539-4735

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