Nurse prescribing of medicines in Western European and Anglo-Saxon countries: A systematic review of the literature

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kroezen, Marieke ^a   Van Dijk, Liset ^a   Groenewegen, Peter P ^a,b   Francke, Anneke L ^a,c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

EUROPE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING PRACTICE; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

EUROPE; NURSE'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; NURSE'S ROLE; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS;

EID: 79957486512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-127     Document Type: Review

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