Content of home pharmacies and self-medication practices in households of pharmacy and medical students in Zagreb, Croatia: Findings in 2001 with a reference to 1977

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 74-80

  Aljinović Vučić, Vedrana ^a   Trkulja, Vladimir ^a   Lacković, Zdravko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; ANTIULCER AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; DIURETIC AGENT; HORMONE; LOPERAMIDE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PHOLCODINE; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; TRAMADOL; VITAMIN;

CROATIA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SELF MEDICATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; INTERVIEW; MALE; PHARMACY STUDENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CROATIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF MEDICATION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, PHARMACY;

EID: 15744378831     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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