Physician communication when prescribing new medications.

Derjung M. Tarn; John Heritage; Debora A. Paterniti; Ron D. Hays; Richard L. Kravitz; Neil Wenger

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Physician communication when prescribing new medications.

October 11, 2006

Tarn DM, Heritage J, Paterniti DA, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166(17):1855-1862.

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The investigators analyzed the quality of physician communication with patients when prescribing new medications and found that physicians typically covered three of the five identified key elements.

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