"Save 30% if you buy today". Online pharmacies and the enhancement of peripheral thinking in consumers

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 970-976

  Orizio, Grazia ^a   Rubinelli, Sara ^b   Schulz, Peter J ^c   Domenighini, Serena ^a   Bressanelli, Maura ^a   Caimi, Luigi ^a   Gelatti, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Internet; Marketing; Persuasive communication; Pharmaceutical preparations

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMPHETAMINE; CODEINE; FLUOXETINE; HYDROCODONE; METHAMPHETAMINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; PHENTERMINE; SILDENAFIL; STANOZOLOL; TRAMADOL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; DRUG MARKETING; HUMAN; INTERNET; ONLINE PHARMACY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THINKING;

COMMERCE; COMMUNICATION; DRUG AND NARCOTIC CONTROL; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNET; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS;

EID: 77957331291     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.2007     Document Type: Article

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