Cole Schmidtknecht typically spent around $5 for his inhaler. According to his father, Bil, one day when he tried to refill his prescription, he was told it would cost more than $500, which he couldn’t afford. Cole suffered a severe asthma attack days later, lead...
Linkable prescription, physician billing, hospitalization, and mortality records were obtained from the BC Ministry of Health Services. From the total population of residents aged>or=65 years, we extracted data for all patients to whom inhaled steroids, beta2-agonists, oranticholinergics were ...
Immediately following the ban, the mean cost of asthma inhalers rose from $13.60 per prescription in 2004 to $25 in 2009, said lead study author Dr. Anupam Jena, an assistant professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston. "We're talking about—at its pe...
In England, the actual number of NMS-eligible prescription medicines (Ministry of Health data) was assessed and whether it was affected by the distance between pharmacies and the primary care physicians’ offices. The study found that 0.25% of prescription items were eligible for the NMS, which ...
Nearly9 in 10 peopledying from the virus now are 65 or older. Yet federal law restricts Medicare Part D — the prescription drug program thatcovers nearly 50 million seniors— from covering the COVID treatment pills. The medications are meant for those most at risk of serious illness, includi...
In all countries, patients whose asthma was characterized as uncontrolled had statistically significantly greater frequency of asthma medication (oral steroids, inhalers for quick relief/rescue, and long-term maintenance medicines) use as well as visits to the emergency room and health care providers ...
12 Each patient had complete up-to-standard data for 1 year before (baseline year) and 1 year after (outcome year) the index ICS prescription (Figure 1). We excluded patients with a diagnosis of any chronic respiratory disease other than asthma and, in the US study, patients who had ...
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Such steps may include the prescription of BAIs.Alan HaycoxGail MitchellChristie NiziolRichard FeatherstoneJournal of drug assessmentPrice D, Thomas M, Mitchell G, Niziol C, Featherstone R. Improvement of asthma control with a breath-actuated pressurised metered dose inhaler (BAI): a prescribing ...
Turning green: the impact of changing to more eco-friendly respiratory healthcare - a carbon and cost analysis of Dutch prescription dataAsthmaChange managementChronic airways diseaseHealth policyProtocols & guidelinesObjectives:Dry powder inhalers (DPIs) and soft mist inhalers have a substantially ...