General practitioners' views on using a prescribing substitution application (ScriptSwitch®)

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Hire, Carly ^a   Rushforth, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical electronic prescribing; Decision support systems; Evidencebased practice; Health expenditures; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84897048536     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: 14759985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v21i1.6     Document Type: Article

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