THE DIAS ROUNDS is a discussion of requests for information received by various drug information centers and is edited by the Drug Information Analysis Service at the University of California, San Francisco. This issue features three requests: Enteral Nutrition Prophylaxis Against Stress Ulcers, Vitamin D Therapy of Phenytoin-Induced Osteomalacia, and Clonazepam in Mania.
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