Pharmacy technicians' attention to problems with opening medicine packaging

Journal of Pharmacy Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-7

  Philbert, Daphne ^a   Notenboom, Kim ^b   Koster, Ellen S ^a   Fietjé, Esther H ^a   Van Geffen, Erica C G ^a   Bouvy, Marcel L ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community pharmacy; Drug containers; Drug packaging; Patient problems with drug packaging; Pharmacy technician

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG PACKAGING; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OPENING MEDICINE PACKAGING; PHARMACY; PHARMACY TECHNICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

EID: 84896780208     PISSN: 87551225     EISSN: 15494810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/8755122513512111     Document Type: Article

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