Antibiotics dispensing for URTIs by community pharmacists and general medical practitioners in Penang, Malaysia: A comparative study using simulated patients

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 119-123

  Alabid, Alamin Hassan M A ^a   Ibrahim, Mohamed Izham Mohamed ^b   Hassali, Mohamed Azmi ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^b College of Pharmacy Qatar University ^*  (Qatar)

Author keywords

Community pharmacists; Dispensing doctors; Dispensing separation; General practitioners; Simulated patients

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; VITAMIN;

ARTICLE; COMMON COLD SYMPTOM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; PHARMACIST; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VALIDATION STUDY; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84892776506     PISSN: 2249782X     EISSN: 0973709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2014/6199.3923     Document Type: Article

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