Table 4.

Clinical Scenarios: Focus Group Prompt and Supplementary Quotes

Clinical scenario	Patient quote	Caregiver quote
Scenario 1: Testosterone prescribed for fatigue	“The medication might increase his chances of a heart attack. I think that’s [the] more important question than the $200 I think.”	“I’d rather have him be tired than chance having another heart attack.”
Scenario 2: Switching from pravastatin to atorvastatin	“I would recommend to her to go ahead and try it … For ten dollars, try it for six months [and] see what she thinks.”	“It’s not that huge of a difference between those two drugs to make it worth paying more for something, especially if you are already on something and it’s working.”
Scenario 3: Clopidogrel no longer covered by insurance	“You could not just quit your med because of that.”	“Why would an insurance company be doing the work of a doctor?”
Scenario 4: Switching from omeprazole to H2 blocker	“The new medication does not have the side effects that the doctor’s worried about.”	“If there was something else I could take and it did not have those risks associated with it, then that’s fine. And then she would have to take the new medicine twice a day, takin[g] away the inconvenience of just once-a-day Prilosec … but unless there was something better, I would not have asked her to stop.”