Potential Determinants of Prescribers' Drug-Drug Interaction Knowledge

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 355-366

  Ko, Yu ^a   Malone, Daniel C ^b   D'Agostino, Jerome V ^b   Skrepnek, Grant H ^b   Armstrong, Edward P ^b   Brown, Mary ^b,c   Woosley, Raymond L ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse drug events; Drug drug interaction; Physician knowledge; Rasch modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG INTERACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD;

DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 57049099172     PISSN: 15517411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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