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Self-medication in Central Saudi Arabia

Community pharmacy consumers’ perspectives

Hisham Aljadhey, Ghada A. Assiri, Mansour A. Mahmoud, Sinaa Al-Aqeel and Michael Murray
Saudi Medical Journal March 2015, 36 (3) 328-334; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.3.10523
Hisham Aljadhey
From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Aljadhey), Medication Safety Research Chair (Assiri, Mahmoud, Al-Aqeel), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Pharmacy and Regenstrief Institute (Murray), Purdue University, Indianapolis City, USA.
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Ghada A. Assiri
From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Aljadhey), Medication Safety Research Chair (Assiri, Mahmoud, Al-Aqeel), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Pharmacy and Regenstrief Institute (Murray), Purdue University, Indianapolis City, USA.
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Mansour A. Mahmoud
From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Aljadhey), Medication Safety Research Chair (Assiri, Mahmoud, Al-Aqeel), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Pharmacy and Regenstrief Institute (Murray), Purdue University, Indianapolis City, USA.
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Sinaa Al-Aqeel
From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Aljadhey), Medication Safety Research Chair (Assiri, Mahmoud, Al-Aqeel), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Pharmacy and Regenstrief Institute (Murray), Purdue University, Indianapolis City, USA.
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From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Aljadhey), Medication Safety Research Chair (Assiri, Mahmoud, Al-Aqeel), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Pharmacy and Regenstrief Institute (Murray), Purdue University, Indianapolis City, USA.
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vol. 36 no. 3 328-334
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.3.10523
PubMed 
25737176

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received October 15, 2014
  • Accepted January 28, 2015
  • Published online March 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Hisham Aljadhey, PharmD, PhD⇑,
  2. Ghada A. Assiri, B.Pharm, MSc,
  3. Mansour A. Mahmoud, B.Pharm, MSc,
  4. Sinaa Al-Aqeel, MSC, PhD and
  5. Michael Murray, PharmD, MPH
  1. From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Aljadhey), Medication Safety Research Chair (Assiri, Mahmoud, Al-Aqeel), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Pharmacy and Regenstrief Institute (Murray), Purdue University, Indianapolis City, USA.
  1. Address correspondence and re-print request to: Dr. Hisham Aljadhey, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Director of Medication Safety Research Chair, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, PO Box 2475, Riyadh 11451, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: haljadhey{at}ksu.edu.sa.
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