Importance The increasing cost of prescription drugs in the United States has become a
source of concern for patients, prescribers, payers, and policy makers. Objectives To review …

Medication adherence usually refers to whether patients take their medications as
prescribed (eg, twice daily), as well as whether they continue to take a prescribed …

Building resilient health systems: a proposal for a resilience index Page 1 Building resilient
health systems: a proposal for a resilience index Health system resilience begins with …

Medical practice in the United States has changed dramatically in the last several decades,
especially with more frequent use of prescription drugs. A higher volume and better-quality …

ContextPrescription drugs are instrumental to managing and preventing chronic disease.
Recent changes in US prescription drug cost sharing could affect access to them …

Despite evidence-based interventions, coronary heart disease (CHD) remains a leading
cause of global mortality. As therapies advance, patient non-adherence to established …

In the Medicare program, increases in cost sharing by a supplemental insurer can exert
financial externalities. We study a policy change that raised patient cost sharing for the …

A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of low-value medical
care because copays are lower than costs. In these models, the demand curve alone can be …

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Background: Nonadherence to statins limits the benefits of this common drug class.
Individual studies assessing predictors of nonadherence haue produced inconsistent …