Which of the following statements is true about the prescribing practices of physicians?

Antibiotic medications remain in the top five classifications of medications prescribed.

Older physicians tend to prescribe more appropriate medications than younger physicians.

The dominant form of drug information used by primary care physicians continues to be that provided by pharmaceutical companies.

Most physicians rely on a “therapeutic armamentarium” that consists of less than 100 drug preparations per physician.

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.

A primary care NP recommends an over-the-counter medication for a patient who has acid reflux. When teaching the patient about this drug, the NP should tell the patient:

not to worry about taking this drug with any other medications.

that over-the-counter acid reflux medications are generally safe to take with other medications.