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The availability of pharmacies in the United States: 2007–2015

  • Dima Mazen Qato ,

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    * E-mail: dimaqato@uic.edu

    Affiliations Department of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5411-6998

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  • Shannon Zenk,

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

    Affiliation Department of Health System Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

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  • Jocelyn Wilder,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

    Affiliations Department of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois

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  • Rachel Harrington,

    Roles Data curation

    Affiliation Department of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois

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  • Darrell Gaskin,

    Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

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  • G. Caleb Alexander

    Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

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The availability of pharmacies in the United States: 2007–2015

  • Dima Mazen Qato, 
  • Shannon Zenk, 
  • Jocelyn Wilder, 
  • Rachel Harrington, 
  • Darrell Gaskin, 
  • G. Caleb Alexander
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  • Published: August 16, 2017
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183172
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