Personal medicines storage in New Zealand

Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 146-150

  Hewson, Campbell ^a   Shen, Chong Chi ^a   Strachan, Clare ^a,b   Norris, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Drug storage; Humidity; New Zealand; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878451871     PISSN: 11726164     EISSN: 11726156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/hc13146     Document Type: Article

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