Managing multiple morbidity in mid-life: A qualitative study of attitudes to drug use

British Medical Journal

Volumn 327, Issue 7419, 2003, Pages 837-840

  Townsend, Anne ^a   Hunt, Kate ^a   Wyke, Sally ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS EDUCATION FOR SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIULCER AGENT; STEROID;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AVERSION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; TABLET FORMULATION; ULCER; UNITED KINGDOM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DRUG COMBINATION; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLYPHARMACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLYPHARMACY;

EID: 0142028810     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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