Older patients' perceptions of medication importance and worth: An exploratory pilot study

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1061-1075

  Lau, Denys T ^a,e   Briesacher, Becky A ^b   Mercaldo, Nathaniel D ^c   Halpern, Leslie ^a   Osterberg, E Charles ^a   Jarzebowski, Mary ^d   McKoy, June M ^a   Mazor, Kathleen ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug information; Elderly

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMFEBUTAMONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMLODIPINE; ATENOLOL; ATORVASTATIN; CHLORTALIDONE; CITALOPRAM; DILTIAZEM; DULOXETINE; ESCITALOPRAM; FELODIPINE; FLUOXETINE; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE PLUS SALMETEROL; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; IRBESARTAN; LISINOPRIL; LORAZEPAM; LOSARTAN; METOPROLOL; OLMESARTAN; QUETIAPINE; RABEPRAZOLE; SERTRALINE; TORASEMIDE; TRAZODONE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALSARTAN; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; DRUG COSTS; DRUG THERAPY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PILOT PROJECTS; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56649100773     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/0002512-200825120-00007     Document Type: Article

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