Promoting medication adherence in children

American Family Physician

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Gardiner, Paula ^a   Dvorkin, Lana ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFACLOR; CEFALEXIN; CEFPROZIL; CETIRIZINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FAMOTIDINE; LORATADINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; RANITIDINE;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD CARE; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG FORMULATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRESCRIPTION; RASH; REVIEW; TABLET FORMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CHILD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

EID: 33748579891     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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