Patient and physician attitudes to using medications with religiously forbidden ingredients

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1830-1835

  Sattar, S Pirzada ^a,b   Ahmed, Mohammed Shakeel ^a   Madison, James ^c   Olsen, Denise R ^b   Bhatia, Subhash C ^b   Ellahi, Shahid ^d   Majeed, Farhan ^e   Ramaswamy, Sriram ^a   Petty, Frederick ^b,c   Wilson, Daniel R ^c  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA NEBRASKA WESTERN IOWA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adherence; Culture; Ethics; Gelatin; Informed consent; Religion; Stearic acid

Indexed keywords

GELATIN; STEARIC ACID;

ADULT; CATTLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DRUG FORMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT RIGHT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; REVIEW; SWINE;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RELIGIOUS APPROACH;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SWINE;

EID: 7044220761     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1E001     Document Type: Review

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