Training pharmacy workers in recognition, management, and prevention of STDs: District-randomized controlled trial

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 806-814

  Garcia, Patricia ^a   Hughes, James ^b   Carcamo, Cesar ^a   Holmes, King K ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Education, Pharmacy; Patient simulation; Peru; Pharmacies utilization; Pharmacists utilization; Physicians; Randomized controlled trials; Referral and consultation; Sexually transmitted diseases prevention and control diagnosis drug therapy; Syndrome

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH WORKER; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRAINING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDOM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; GENITAL ULCER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PERU; PHARMACY; PILOT STUDY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL STATUS; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TRAINING; URETHRA DISEASE; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

EDUCATION, PHARMACY, CONTINUING; HUMANS; PERU; PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

LIMA [PERU]; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0347365792     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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