Primary health care practitioner perspectives on the management of insomnia: A pilot study

Australian Journal of Primary Health

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 103-112

  Cheung, Janet M Y ^a   Atternäs, Kristina ^b   Melchior, Madeleine ^b   Marshall, Nathaniel S ^a   Fois, Romano A ^a   Saini, Bandana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

framework analysis; general practitioner; insomnia management; pharmacist; primary care; provider perspectives; qualitative research; zolpidem.

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; ZOLPIDEM;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INSOMNIA; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACIST; PHARMACIST ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PILOT STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY;

FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PILOT PROJECTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PYRIDINES; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84894142316     PISSN: 14487527     EISSN: 18367399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PY12021     Document Type: Article

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