Piloting and validating an innovation to triage patients presenting with cough to community pharmacies in Western Australia

Quality in Primary Care

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 83-91

  Jiwa, Moyez ^a   Hughes, Jeff ^b   Sriram, Deepa ^a   Birring, Surinder ^c   Meng, Xingqiong ^d   Cecchele, Gia ^e   Cooke, John ^f   Ng, Nicolas ^f  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b School of Pharmacy   (Australia)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Inglewood Amcal Chemist and Civic News   (Australia)

^f Gateway Night and day Pharmacy Success ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Cough; Decision support tool; Pharmacist; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COUGHING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PILOT STUDY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

COUGH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHARMACIES; PHARMACISTS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRIAGE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84862026656     PISSN: 14791072     EISSN: 14791064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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