A pharmacist-led intervention for increasing the uptake of Home Medicines Review (HMR) among residents of retirement villages (PHARMER): Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lee, Cik ^a   George, Johnson ^a   Elliott, Rohan A ^a,b   Stewart, Kay ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FOLLOW UP; HOUSING; HUMAN; MEDICATION ERROR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHARMACIST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETIREMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOUSING; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHARMACISTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETIREMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; VICTORIA;

EID: 81255207162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-292     Document Type: Article

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