Older people often incorrectly assume medicines don't have potential side effects
UCLA RESEARCH BRIEF UCLA Health The findings suggest that physicians should spend more time explaining medication side effects to ensure their older patients are fully informed. Enrique Rivero | FINDINGS Older people correctly ascertained basic information such as dosage and duration of use for more than 70% of the medications they were prescribed, regardless of whether their physician explained it during an office visit. But when physicians failed to verbally provide information about potential side effects, people incorrectly assumed that about 55% of their prescribed medications ...
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