Web search query volume as a measure of pharmaceutical utilization and changes in prescribing patterns

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 896-903

  Simmering, Jacob E ^a   Polgreen, Linnea A ^a   Polgreen, Philip M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Novel data sources; Pharmacovigilance; Post marketing surveillance

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 84923022419     PISSN: 15517411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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