Which of the following statements is true about the prescribing practices of physicians?
a. Older physicians tend to prescribe more appropriate medications than younger physicians.
b. Antibiotic medications remain in the top five classifications of medications prescribed.
c. Most physicians rely on a "therapeutic armamentarium" that consists of less than 100 drug preparations per physician.
d. The dominant form of drug information used by primary care physicians continues to be that provided by pharmaceutical companies.
D
Even though most physicians claim to place little weight on drug advertisements, pharmaceutical representatives, and patient preference and state that they rely on academic sources for drug information, a study showed that commercial rather than scientific sources of drug information dominated their drug information materials. Younger physicians tend to prescribe fewer and more appropriate drugs. Antibiotics have dropped out of the top five classifications of drugs prescribed. Most physicians have a therapeutic armamentarium of about 144 drugs.
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