Challenges and enablers of deprescribing: A general practitioner perspective

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Ailabouni, Nagham J ^a   Nishtala, Prasad S ^a   Mangin, Dee ^b,c   Tordoff, June M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CITY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; NEW ZEALAND; NURSE; PRESCRIPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RECOGNITION; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESCRIPTION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTION; PHARMACIST;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; DEPRESCRIPTIONS; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; PERCEPTION; PHARMACISTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84968543975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151066     Document Type: Review

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