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for certain groups in the past decade (Daw and Morgan, 2012, Daw et al., 2013) but there has been little progress on a national pharmacare program. Most non-elderly Canadians who have drug insurance obtain it through employee benefit plans. However, a significant number of Canadians are un...
Objectives To describe access to the first biologic DMARD prescription in a population of patients with RA and identical comprehensive health insurance coverage in Ontario, Canada, and to explore the associations of patient, prescriber, and geographic region with differences in time to first biologic ...
Age-based plans, which usually apply only to seniors, have major drawbacks. These include a cost structure that will be pressured from an aging population and inequities in benefit access: seniors with income and drug needs similar to a working-age family without private drug coverage pay a ...
A further crucial point concerns the need for a frequent re-evaluation of the ongoing treatment appropriateness. Indeed, since older individuals frequently have unstable health trajectories, single therapies’ risk/benefit ratios may vary with the changes in clinical conditions. Close follow-up ...