Educating and informing patients receiving psychopharmacological medications: Are family physicians in Pakistan up to the task?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Ganatra, Hammad Ashraf ^a   Bhurgri, Hadi ^a   Channa, Roomasa ^a   Bawany, Fauzia Ahmad ^a   Zafar, Syed Nabeel ^a   Chaudhry, Rafia Ishfaq ^a   Batool, Syeda Hina ^a   Basit, Abdul ^a   Asghar, Mehmood ^a   Saleem, Sarah ^b   Naqvi, Haider ^b  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENTAL DISEASE; PAKISTAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 84864285832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004620     Document Type: Article

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