Author names and affiliations
Dr Peter H Rivers, Honorary Reader, School of Pharmacy, Hawthorn
Building, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH†. Tel: 01332 676241. Email:
peterrivers@btinternet.com
Dr Nigel Langford, Email:
nigellangford@nhs.net.
Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester, Consultant Clinical
Pharmacologist and Acute and General Physician
Dr Andrew Whitehead, Specialty Registrar, Intensive Care Medicine and
Anaesthesia, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Email:
apwhitehead@doctors.org.uk
Mr Tim Harrison, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, De Montfort
University Email:
tharrison@dmu.ac.uk.
† Corresponding author’s present address: 17 Cole
Lane, Ockbrook, Derby DE72 3RD
Correspondence to : Dr Peter Rivers:
peterrivers@btinternet.com
Running title: Prescribing decisions on the acute medical unit