1 School of Policy StudiesDrugs & AgingO'Neill C, Hughes CM, Jamison J, Schweizer A. Cost of pharmacological care of the elderly: implications for healthcare resources. Drugs Aging. 2003;20(4):253-261.O'Neill C, Hughes CM, Jamison J, Schweizer A. Cost of pharmacological care of the ...
- 《Bmc Health Services Research》 被引量: 186发表: 2008年 Antihypertensive Drug Utilization in Hypertensive Veterans With Complex Medication Profiles. A pharmacy prescription database was used to identify patients at high risk for drug-related problems. Of the 1054 patients in the study, 687 had...
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of medication adherence on healthcare utilization and cost for 4 chronic conditions that are major drivers of drug spending: diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and congestive heart failure. Research Design: The authors conducted...
24-26 Cost of medication intolerance was set to Medicare reimbursements for a primary care appointment for mild adverse events and an average non-HF hospitalization for severe adverse events.27,28 All costs were inflation-adjusted to 2021 using the Personal Consumption Expenditure price indexes for ...
The sample includes patients with a laparoscopic and/or histological diagnosis of endometriosis and with at least 1 patient contact related to endometriosis during 2008. The EndoCost study measures direct healthcare costs (e.g. costs of medication, physician visits), direct non-healthcare costs (e...
Medicare Part D, which provides prescription drug coverage, includes coinsurance or copayments as part of its cost structure. Coinsurance refers to the percentage of the cost of a covered healthcare service that an individual is responsible for paying after their deductible has been met. Copayments...
Trial results later showed it slowed the rate of cognitive decline by 27% compared with a placebo in patients with early disease. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that runs the health plan for people age 65 and older, ...
The intervention also resulted in overall cost savings of $10 162 per person, as the cost reduction associated with fewer CV events more than offset the cost of pharmacist visits and medication adjustments (Table 1). When comparing health care costs only (ie, excluding the costs of the ...
Calculating the cost of medication errors: A systematic review of approaches and cost variables Introduction Medication errors are an unnecessary cost to a healthcare system and patients of a country. This review aimed to systematically identify publi... S Ranasinghe,A Nadeshkumar,SSN Senadheera ...
Fig. 1. Study design. HCRU, healthcare resource utilization; OTC, over the counter; YOA, years of age. 2.2. Medical costs Total medical costs were calculated as the sum of diagnostic and medical care costs. Different diagnostic methods were analysed to calculate diagnostic costs based on 2017...