Media, messages, and medication: strategies to reconcile what patients hear, what they want, and what they need from medications

Background:

Over the past 30 years, patients’ options for accessing information about prescription drugs have expanded dramatically. In this narrative review, we address four questions: (1) What information sources are patients exposed to, and are they paying attention? (2) Is the information they hear credible and accurate? (3) When patients ask for a prescription, what do they really want and need? Finally, (4) How can physicians reconcile what patients hear, want, and need?

Source: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision-making [via eScholarship Repository]

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