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Prescription Drug Cost Sharing: Associations With Medication and Medical Utilization and Spending and Health Prescription drugs are instrumental to managing and preventing chronic disease. Recent changes in US prescription drug cost sharing could affect access to ... DP Goldman,GF Joyce,Y Zheng - 《...
In this paper, we suggest that adherence to antidepressant medication results in substantial improvement in the time to relapse or recurrence of depression. Choice of an SSRI may thus improve treatment outcome by lengthening remission. In addition, this choice is not associated with higher costs. ...
Now the findings of a new survey suggest that many of the sickest patients do not tell their healthcare providers what they are doing. Cost-related medication underuse: Do patients with chronic illnesses tell their doctors? was published in the Sept. 13 issue of the Archives of Internal Medic...
patients diagnosed with depression and treated with either sertraline, paroxetine, or fluoxetine.Claims records from a national database of patients diagnosed with depression who began treatment with an SSRI in 1995, following an antidepressant medication-free period of at least 6 months, were included...
Ideally, monopolies will be temporary because eventually generic competition should emerge as patents expire. Unfortunately, in cancers and chronic life-threatening diseases, this often does not happen. By the time a drug runs out of patent life, it is already considered obsolete (planned obsolescence...
Given these developments, our findings support the use of structured pharmacological interventions in the management of uncomplicated depression in primary care. There is an economic rationale for initially prescribing an antidepressant medication when patients lack strong treatment preferences and there is ...
The intervention included systematic patient education, two psychoeducational visits with a depression prevention specialist, shared decision-making regarding maintenance pharmacotherapy, and telephone and mail monitoring of medication adherence and depressive symptoms. Outcomes in both groups were assessed via ...
The Texas Medication Algorithm Project was designed to compare health care costs and clinical outcomes between patients who received algorithm-guided medication management or usual care in 19 public mental health clinics. METHODS: This longitudinal cohort study for patients with major depression (N=350)...
Welcome to our comprehensive guide on how much Zoloft costs with insurance. Zoloft, also known as Sertraline, is a commonly prescribed medication used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, and other mental health conditions. Understanding the cost of Zoloft when you have insurance coverage can help...