Receipt of Prescription Drug Information by the Elderly
- 1 December 1983
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Drug Intelligence & Clinical Pharmacy
- Vol. 17 (12) , 920-923
- https://doi.org/10.1177/106002808301701222
Abstract
Analysis of responses of 267 elderly subjects to a telephone survey dealing with communications between patients and health professionals about prescribed medications indicated several age-related differences. Results showed that elderly patients received less general information and less drug-specific information than younger patients did. This occurred in both pharmacist and physician encounters.Keywords
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