According to a study conducted by the AARP Public Policy Institute, prices for 75 generic medications increased by 0.7 percent between 2004 and 2005.EBSCO_AspBrown University Geriatric Psychopharmacology Update
Access barriers for the low-income elderly: The impact of Medicaid prescription drug utilization management policies on medication nonadherence . While Medicaid was an important source of drug coverage for the low-income elderly prior to the Medicare drug benefit, it sought to contain costs through ...
Trends in the prescription of inappropriate drugs for the elderly between 1995 and 1999 Background: Using criteria developed by Beers et al between 1991 and 1997, previous studies have reported high levels of inappropriate drug prescribing for... Bruce Stuart and Sachin Kamal-Bahl and Becky Briesa...
Adherence to pharmacotherapy for heart failure is poor among older adults in part because of high prescription drug costs. We examined the impact of improv... JM Donohue,Y Zhang,JR Lave,... - 《American Heart Journal》 被引量: 60发表: 2010年 Medicare Part D and quality of prescription med...
The impact of Medicare Part D on prescription drug use by the elderly. This study investigates the effect of Medicare Part D on the elderly's prescription drug use and out-of-pocket costs using a difference-in-differences rese... FR Lichtenberg,SX Sun - 《Health Aff》...
care issues for voters were the costs of health care and prescription drugs, prescription-drug benefits for the elderly, the uninsured, and Medicare. Biote... A Pruss,UB Göbel,G Pauli - 《New England Journal of Medicine》 被引量: 431发表: 2004年 Chemotherapy and survival benefit in elderl...
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Inappropriate drug prescription (IP) has been related to higher hospitalization rates and development of adverse drug effects (ADE). We have studied the inappropriate drug prescriptions given to elderly patients admitted to the hospital and the frequency and severity of the adverse events related with...
2010. "Does Prescription Drug Adherence Reduce Hospitalizations and Costs? The Case of Diabetes." In ... WE Encinosa,D Bernard,A Dor - 《Social Science Electronic Publishing》 被引量: 68发表: 2010年 credit, including © notice, is given to the source. Does Prescription Drug Adherence ...
For many working insured individuals, co-payments and drug costs are low relative to household income. All other things being equal, individuals with higher incomes are less sensitive to price increases than individuals with lower incomes. 展开 关键词:...