Teaching the ESSEnCE of office-based prescribing

Family Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 316-318

  Bazaldua, Oralia ^a   Pollock, Madelyn ^b   Roaten, Shelley ^c   Dobbie, Alison ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Departments of Anesthesiology Neurology Neurosurgery University of Texas Southwestern   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DIURETIC AGENT; LITHIUM; METFORMIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIET THERAPY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SELECTIVITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDEMA; FAMILY MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSOMNIA; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PNEUMONIA; POLYPHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; RESIDENT; SHORT SURVEY; SLEEP THERAPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES; PHYSICIANS' OFFICES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646566835     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: 07423225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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