Compliance: Problems and opportunities

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-16

  Franson, K L ^a   Smith, S L ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AGED; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG MONITORING; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; REVIEW; AGE; ARTICLE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; HUMANS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS;

EID: 0031992870     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0749-0690(18)30127-7     Document Type: Review

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