Development and validation of a measure and a model of general practitioner attitudes toward collaboration with pharmacists

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 688-699

  Van, Connie ^a   Costa, Daniel ^a   Mitchell, Bernadette ^a   Abbott, Penny ^b   Krass, Ines ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collaboration; General practitioner; Instrument development; Pharmacist; Principal component analysis; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLLABORATION; COOPERATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACIST; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COLLABORATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT; PHARMACIST; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHARMACISTS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84887618741     PISSN: 15517411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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