Factors influencing prescribing behaviour of physicians in Greece and Cyprus: Results from a questionnaire based survey

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Theodorou, Mamas ^a   Tsiantou, Vasiliki ^b   Pavlakis, Andreas ^a   Maniadakis, Nikos ^b   Fragoulakis, Vasilis ^b   Pavi, Elpida ^b   Kyriopoulos, John ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERIC DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CYPRUS; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG PREFERENCE; DRUG SAFETY; GREECE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PEER REVIEW; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; SAMPLE; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CYPRUS; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUGS, GENERIC; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 69949182491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-150     Document Type: Article

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