General practitioners' perceptions of the pharmaceutical decision-support tools in their prescribing software

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 34-37

  Ahearn, Michael D ^a   Kerr, Stephen J ^a  

^a National Prescribing Service Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL HEALTH CARE; URBAN AREA; WORK CAPACITY;

EID: 0042815128     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05415.x     Document Type: Article

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