Linking community pharmacy dispensing data to prescribing data of general practitioners

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Florentinus, Stefan R ^d   Souverein, Patrick C ^a   Griens, Fabiënne A M G ^d   Groenewegen, Peter P ^b,c   Leufkens, Hubert G M ^a   Heerdink, Eibert R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Foundation for Pharmaceutical Statistics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; PRESCRIPTIVE AUTHORITY; ADULT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG USE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; POSTAL MAIL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHARMACIES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTAL SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33646235891     PISSN: 14726947     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-6-18     Document Type: Article

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