Quality of consumer drug information provided by four Web sites

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy

Volumn 56, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 2308-2311

  Hatfield, Catherine L ^a   May, Sondra K ^b   Markoff, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Computers; Consumers; Drug information; Internet; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE BESYLATE; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE NAPSILATE; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; ENALAPRIL MALEATE; FLUOXETINE; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE PLUS TRIAMTERENE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; LISINOPRIL; LORATADINE; NIFEDIPINE; OMEPRAZOLE; PAROXETINE; PENICILLIN V POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RANITIDINE; SALBUTAMOL; SERTRALINE; SIMVASTATIN; TRAMADOL; WARFARIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONSUMER; DRUG INFORMATION; HEALTH SERVICE; INTERNET; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033571567     PISSN: 10792082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajhp/56.22.2308     Document Type: Article

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