Health care and prescription drug spending by seniors

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 16-26

  Fan, Jessie X ^a   Sharpe, Deanna L ^b   Hong, Goog Soog ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG PRESCRIBING;

EID: 0242458085     PISSN: 00981818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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