Helping patients simplify and safely use complex prescription regimens

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 300-305

  Wolf, Michael S ^a,b   Curtis, Laura M ^a   Waite, Katherine ^a   Bailey, Stacy Cooper ^a   Hedlund, Laurie A ^a   Davis, Terry C ^c   Shrank, William H ^d   Parker, Ruth M ^e   Wood, Alastair J J ^f  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFALOTIN; COLESEVELAM; DISOPYRAMIDE; PINAVERIUM; PIVAMPICILLIN; TRIMIPRAMINE; ZOPICLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEDTIME DOSAGE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; PRESCRIPTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952236213     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.39     Document Type: Article

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