Email medication counseling services provided by Finnish community pharmacies

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1782-1790

  Pohjanoksa Mäntylä, Marika K ^a   Kulovaara, Heidi ^b   Bell, J Simon ^a   Enäkoski, Marianne ^c   Airaksinen, Marja S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Ruoholahti Pharmacy   (Finland)

^c Pihtipudas Pharmacy ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Community pharmacy services; Drug information services; Internet

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; MIRTAZAPINE;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DRUG INFORMATION; E-MAIL; FINLAND; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INCREASED APPETITE; LIBIDO DISORDER; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; DATA COLLECTION; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FINLAND; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHARMACISTS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE;

EID: 57449115333     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1L348     Document Type: Article

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