Exploring factors which influence parents’ beliefs about fever and practices in childhood fever management: a cross-sectional study from Palestine

نویسندگان

  • Sa’ed H. Zyoud
  • Samah W. Al-Jabi
  • Waleed M. Sweileh
  • Masa M. Nabulsi
  • Mais F. Tubaila
  • Ansam F. Sawalha
  • Rahmat Awang
چکیده

1 Poison Control and Drug Information Center (PCDIC), College of medicine and health sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. 2 Department of pharmacology and toxicology, College of medicine and health sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. 3 WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Information, National Poison Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia. 4 Department of clinical pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, College of medicine and health sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. 5 PharmD program, College of medicine and health sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012