Texas community pharmacists' willingness to participate in pharmacist-initiated emergency contraception

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 48-57

  Griggs, Scott K ^a   Brown, Carolyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Community pharmacists; Emergency contraception; Surveys; Texas

Indexed keywords

POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTRACEPTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PHARMACIES; PHARMACISTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEXAS;

EID: 33947491292     PISSN: 15443191     EISSN: 15443450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1331/1544-3191.47.1.48.Griggs     Document Type: Article

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