Community pharmacists' involvement in smoking cessation: Familiarity and implementation of the National smoking cessation guideline in Finland

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kurko, Terhi ^a   Linden, Kari ^b   Pietilä, Kirsi ^c   Sandström, Patrick ^d   Airaksinen, Marja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c Malmi Pharmacy   (Finland)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FINLAND; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADULT; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; DATA COLLECTION; FINLAND; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACISTS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 77954970581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-444     Document Type: Article

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