Advice given in community pharmacies to patients with possible oral carcinoma.
We compared advice given by community pharmacy staff in Worcestershire to a proxy consulter on behalf of a patient with a longstanding oral ulcer, presumed to be an oral cancer. If patients seek advice in this way the quality of the advice given is dependent on whether the respondent is a pharmacist or a community pharmacy assistant.
Evans
M J
MJ
Maxillofacial Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, West, Midlands, B15 2TH UK. Martin.Evans@uhb.nhs.uk
Gibbons
A J
AJ
D003253:Consultants; D037001:Directive Counseling; D006801:Humans; D004366:Nonprescription Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019226:Oral Ulcer / Q000473:pathology; D010594:Pharmacies; D010595:Pharmacists; D010596:Pharmacy Technicians / Q000193:education; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D014060:Tongue Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D000078329:Workforce
D004366:Nonprescription Drugs