Integrating a pharmacist into the general practice environment: Opinions of pharmacists, general practitioners, health care consumers, and practice managers

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Freeman, Christopher ^a,b   Cottrell, W Neil ^a,c   Kyle, Greg ^d   Williams, Ian ^a,b   Nissen, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Camp Hill Healthcare Brisbane   (Australia)

^c GREENSLOPES PRIVATE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH FACILITY ADMINISTRATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACISTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUEENSLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864410195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-229     Document Type: Article

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