title: Receipt of prescription drug information by the elderly.
abstract: Analysis of responses of 267 elderly subjects to a telephone survey dealing with communications between patients and health professionals about prescribed medications indicated several age-related differences. Results showed that elderly patients received less general information and less drug-specific information than younger patients did. This occurred in both pharmacist and physician encounters.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004348:Drug Labeling; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States