Analysis of prescriptions dispensed at community pharmacies in Nablus, Palestine;Analyse des prescriptions délivrées dans des pharmacies communautaires de Naplouse (Palestine)

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 788-792

  Sawalha, A F ^a   Sweileh, W M ^a   Zyoud, S H ^a   Al Jabi, S W ^a   Bni Shamseh, F F ^a   Odah, A A ^a  

^a AN NAJAH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS ACTING ON THE EYE; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLOXACILLIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; DICLOFENAC; DIPYRONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; MACROLIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFANETHOXAZOLE PLUS TRIMETHOPRIM; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VITAMIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GENERIC DRUG; PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG INFORMATION; HUMAN; MONOTHERAPY; PALESTINE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PHARMACY; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SEX RATIO; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCUMENTATION; DRUG UTILIZATION; MIDDLE EAST; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WRITING;

ANALGESICS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DOCUMENTATION; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG UTILIZATION; DRUGS, GENERIC; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; PHARMACIES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; WRITING;

EID: 77149180044     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26719/2010.16.7.788     Document Type: Article

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