Age-discrimination in prescribing: Accounting for concordance

Reviews in Clinical Gerontology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Crome, Peter ^a,b   Pollock, K ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT;

AGE; AGEISM; COMORBIDITY; CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EDITORIAL; EXPERIMENTATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT RIGHT; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SELF MEDICATION; SOCIAL DISABILITY; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 13244286698     PISSN: 09592598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959259804001273     Document Type: Editorial

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