Numeracy and Medicare Part D: The Importance of Choice and Literacy for Numbers in Optimizing Decision Making for Medicare's Prescription Drug Program

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 295-307

  Wood, Stacey ^a   Hanoch, Yaniv ^b   Barnes, Andrew ^c   Liu, Pi Ju ^d   Cummings, Janet ^e   Bhattacharya, Chandrima ^d   Rice, Thomas ^c  

^a SCRIPPS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Health policy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; PERSONALITY; READING; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 79959307352     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022028     Document Type: Article

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