New prescriptions: How well do patients remember important information?

Family Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 254-259

  Tarn, Derjung M ^a   Flocke, Susan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955087642     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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