Walking a line between health care and sales: The role of the medicines counter assistant

Pharmaceutical Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 7349, 2005, Pages 586-589

  Banks, Jonathan ^a   Shaw, Alison ^a   Weiss, Marjorie C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG MARKETING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OBSERVATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 20344397951     PISSN: 00316873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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