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Medicare Beneficiaries and Free Prescription Drug Samples: A National Survey

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  1. Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

    Jennifer Tjia MD, MSCE, Becky A. Briesacher PhD & Jerry H. Gurwitz MD

  2. Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Stephen B. Soumerai ScD & Dennis Ross-Degnan ScD

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Tjia, J., Briesacher, B.A., Soumerai, S.B. et al. Medicare Beneficiaries and Free Prescription Drug Samples: A National Survey. J GEN INTERN MED 23, 1727 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-008-0745-3

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