Abstract

Older persons' willingness to take medication for primary cardiovascular disease prevention is relatively insensitive to its benefit but highly sensitive to its adverse effects. These results suggest that clinical guidelines and decisions about prescribing these medications to older persons need to place emphasis on both benefits and harms.

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MedicineAdverse effectAffect (linguistics)DiseasePsychologyInternal medicine

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Year
2011
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article
Volume
171
Issue
10
Pages
923-8
Citations
141
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Terri R. Fried, Mary E. Tinetti, Virginia Towle et al. (2011). Effects of Benefits and Harms on Older Persons' Willingness to Take Medication for Primary Cardiovascular Prevention. Archives of Internal Medicine , 171 (10) , 923-8. https://doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.32

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10.1001/archinternmed.2011.32