Impact of the Medicare modernization act on low-income persons

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 143, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 600-608

  Havrda, Dawn E ^a   Omundsen, Beth A ^a   Bender, William ^a   Kirkpatrick, Mary Ann ^a  

^a SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ATORVASTATIN; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; LISINOPRIL; METOPROLOL; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; DRUG COST; DRUG INDUSTRY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCOME; LAW; LONG TERM CARE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; DRUG LEGISLATION; ECONOMICS; LEGAL ASPECT; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST SAVINGS; DRUG COSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGISLATION, DRUG; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 26944468727     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-143-8-200510180-00011     Document Type: Article

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