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  "issue_key": "vol05-no2-2017",
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  "season": "Winter 2017",
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  "section": "Review Article",
  "title": "Patient Choices Pertaining to Over-the-Counter Medication: A Literature Review",
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  "authors": [
    {
      "given_name": "Muhammed Mostofa",
      "family_name": "Khan",
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      "email": "m.khan@londonchurchillcollege.ac.uk",
      "orcid": null,
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    },
    {
      "given_name": "Golam Maola Moahmmad",
      "family_name": "Faqruzzaman",
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      "affiliation": null,
      "email": "g.faqruzzaman@londonchurchillcollege.ac.uk",
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  "abstract": "The aim of the study is to identify trends exhibited by patients in the UK about OTC medicines⁴² in terms of reasons and factors effecting decision making and choices about purchases. Balanced and comprehensive research into patient choices about OTC medication requires to ascertain both the negative and positive effects arising from the flourishing OTC medicinal industry; the ease of access of OTC has benefits for the health sector considering that the NHS⁴³ is overburdened, pressures from overworked and stretched medical professionals are relieved, that costs are being transferred to patients as paid customers as opposed to over-reliance on government spending under funding restraints. The research utilised a secondary approach drawing information collated from literature reviews, research articles and journals utilising qualitative and quantitative data. A full review of the research literature was undertaken and data analysis required the screening and organising of literature reviewed.",
  "keywords": [
    "Over-the-counter medication",
    "OTC patient choice",
    "non-prescription",
    "purchase medication",
    "UK medicine purchase"
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  "first_page": 155,
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      "markdown": "Wazaify, M., Shields, E., Hughes, C. and McElnay, J. (2004). Societal perspectives on over-the-counter (OTC) medicines. *Family Practice.*, [online] 22(2), pp.170-176. Available at: http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/2/170.full [Accessed 8 Jul. 2017]."
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  "notes": [
    "40\\. All correspondence to: m.khan@londonchurchillcollege.ac.uk",
    "41\\. All correspondence to: g.faqruzzaman@londonchurchillcollege.ac.uk",
    "42\\. Over the Counter is referred to as OTC throughout this article",
    "43\\. National Health Service",
    "44\\. ‘Patient choice: How patients choose and how providers respond’",
    "45\\. ‘Societal perspectives on over-the-counter (OTC) medicines’",
    "46\\. Over-the-Counter Medicine Use Prior to and During Hospitalisation",
    "47\\. ‘Patients' knowledge and perceptions of the side-effects of OTC medicines’",
    "48\\. ‘Information sources used by parents buying non-prescription medicines in pharmacies for preschool children’"
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