Medicare beneficiaries and free prescription drug samples: A national survey

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1727-

  Tjia, Jennifer ^a   Briesacher, Becky A ^a   Soumerai, Stephen B ^b   Ross Degnan, Dennis ^b   Gurwitz, Jerry H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERIC DRUG;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICARE; PRESCRIPTION;

EID: 51649128493     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-008-0745-3     Document Type: Letter

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