Ethical issues in the use of electronic health records for pharmacy medicines sales

Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-19

  Strain, John ^a   Cooper, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethics; Health services; Information systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992927250     PISSN: 1477996X     EISSN: 17588871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14779960710822656     Document Type: Article

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