Provision of a medicines information service to consumers on facebook: An Australian case study

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Benetoli, Arcelio ^a   Chen, Timothy F ^a   Spagnardi, Sarah ^b   Beer, Troy ^b   Aslani, Parisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NPS MedicineWise   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consumers; Drug information services; Facebook; Information services; Medicines information; Pharmacists; Social media

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; DRUG INTERACTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHARMACY; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; UTILIZATION;

AUSTRALIA; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84948955765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4161     Document Type: Article

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