Do family practitioners in Lithuania inform their patients about adverse effects of common medications?

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 137-140

  Liseckiene, I ^a   Liubarskiene, Z ^a   Jacobsen, R ^b   Valius, L ^a   Norup, M ^b  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DRUG; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; LITHUANIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 40649118547     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2006.019448     Document Type: Article

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