Outpatient prescription drug use by children enrolled in five drug benefit plans

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 528-545

  Hong, Song Hee ^a   Shepherd, Marvin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; GENERIC DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COST CONTROL; DRUG USE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029938261     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-2918(96)80035-X     Document Type: Article

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