Capturing data on medicines usage: The potential of community pharmacy databases

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1223, 2005, Pages

  Ryan, Kathleen ^a   Norris, Pauline ^a   Becket, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

COMMUNITY; CONSUMER; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; ARTICLE; DRUG USE; FACTUAL DATABASE; GEOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBURBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 27744461696     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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