Building capacity to implement cognitive pharmaceutical services: Quantifying the needs of community pharmacies

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 163-173

  Feletto, Eleonora ^a   Wilson, Laura Kate ^a   Roberts, Alison Sarah ^b   Benrimoj, Shalom Isaac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b The University of Sydney ^*

Author keywords

Cognitive pharmaceutical services; Community pharmacy; Exploratory factor analysis; Organizational flexibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; DATA COLLECTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; PHARMACISTS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77956232097     PISSN: 15517411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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