Validating a self-medication risk assessment instrument

Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 78-83

  Fuller, Dinah ^a   Watson, Roger ^b  

^a East Yorkshire Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compliance; Concordance; Medicine management; Self medication risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645962455     PISSN: 13619004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cein.2004.12.003     Document Type: Article

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