Assessing the importance of community pharmacists as providers of drug information

Journal of Applied Therapeutic Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 24-29

  Vainio, Kirsti ^a   Airaksinen, Marja ^a   Väisänen, Tuulia ^a   Enlund, Hannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Community pharmacies; Information sources; Patient information; Pharmacy customers

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848829506     PISSN: 10292659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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