Experiences of community pharmacists involved in the delivery of a specialist asthma service in Australia

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Emmerton, Lynne M ^a,b   Smith, Lorraine ^c   Lemay, Kate S ^c   Krass, Ines ^c   Saini, Bandana ^c   Bosnic Anticevich, Sinthia Z ^c   Reddel, Helen K ^d   Burton, Deborah L ^e,f   Stewart, Kay ^g   Armour, Carol L ^c,d  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d University of Sydney   (Australia)

^e CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asthma; Disease management service; Experiences; Feedback; Pharmacy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPECIALIZATION;

ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; PHARMACISTS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPECIALIZATION;

EID: 84862256353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-164     Document Type: Article

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