Are preventive drugs preventive enough? A study of patients' expectation of benefit from preventive drugs
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Are preventive drugs preventive enough? A study of patients' expectation of benefit from preventive drugs.
OBJECTIVES The study aimed to find the threshold of benefit for a hypothetical cholesterol-lowering drug below which the subject would not be prepared to take the drug. We also looked at whether proximity to the target event (myocardial infarction) and the subjects' views on drug taking affected this threshold. DESIGN We studied 307 subjects using a written questionnaire and interview. Group ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.2-6-527