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