Predictors of rheumatoid arthritis patient-physician communication about medication costs during visits to rheumatologists

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 632-639

  Beard, Ashley J ^a   Sleath, Betsy ^b   Blalock, Susan J ^b   Roth, Mary ^b   Weinberger, Morris ^b   Tudor, Gail ^c   Chewning, Betty ^d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c HUSSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; FOLIC ACID; GLUCOCORTICOID; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG COST; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMMUNICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRESCRIPTION FEES; RHEUMATOLOGY;

EID: 77951718181     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.20083     Document Type: Article

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