Eliciting comprehensive medication histories in the emergency department: The role of the pharmacist

Pharmacy Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 78-84

  Crook, Meredith ^a   Ajdukovic, Maya ^a   Angley, Christopher ^b   Soulsby, Natalie ^a   Doecke, Christopher ^a   Stupans, Ieva ^a   Angley, Manya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Medical records; Medication errors; Pharmacautical services

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; AGENTS ACTING ON THE EYE; AGENTS ACTING ON THE GENITAL SYSTEM; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIALLERGIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDOTE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; ELECTROLYTE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; HORMONE; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PENICILLIN G; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT AGENT;

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EAR DISEASE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICATION ERROR; NOSE DISEASE; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PHARMACIST ATTITUDE; SKIN DISEASE; THROAT DISEASE; TOXICITY;

EID: 34548128783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18863655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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