Prescription data improve the medication history in primary care

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 164-168

  Glintborg, B ^a   Andersen, S K ^a   Poulsen, H E ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MEDICATION ERRORS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953861411     PISSN: 14753898     EISSN: 14753901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2008.029488     Document Type: Article

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