Staff attitudes about the use of robots in pharmacy before implementation of a robotic dispensing system

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy

Volumn 55, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 1907-1914

  Crawford, Stephanie Y ^a   Grussing, Paul G ^a   Clark, Toby G ^a   Rice, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Administration; Automation; Data collection; Dispensing; Drug distribution systems; Personnel, pharmacy; Pharmacists, hospital; Pharmacy, institutional, hospital; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUTOMATION; DRUG MARKETING; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; PHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; ROBOTICS; SEMANTICS; WORK;

EID: 0032531162     PISSN: 10792082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajhp/55.18.1907     Document Type: Article

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