Attitudes of finnish community pharmacists toward concordance

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1946-1953

  Kansanaho, Heli M ^a   Puumalainen, Inka I ^b   Varunki, Maaret M ^b   Airaksinen, Marja S A ^a   Aslani, Parisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community pharmacy; Concordance; Finland; Patient counseling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CONSULTATION; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DECISION MAKING; DRUG COST; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FINLAND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; COUNSELING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FINLAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACISTS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 7044229886     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1E050     Document Type: Review

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