Primary health care teams and the patient perspective: A social network analysis

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 741-757

  Cheong, Lynn H M ^a   Armour, Carol L ^b,c   Bosnic Anticevich, Sinthia Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

General practitioner; Health networks; Interprofessional collaboration; Patient; Pharmacist

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH NETWORKS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACIST; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH NETWORKS; INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION; PATIENT; PHARMACIST;

ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887616077     PISSN: 15517411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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