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This research aims to investigate how prescription drug cost-sharing affects overall health care utilization in elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

November 23, 2004Neurology

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MFMartin R. FarlowRutgers, The State University of New Jersey YHYang HeKing University STSibel TekinAbbVie (United States)

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Randomized trial shows increased health resource utilization in elderly patients during cost-sharing periods, indicating unexpected consequences of cost containment policies.

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This research aims to investigate how prescription drug cost-sharing affects overall health care utilization in elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Elderly patients (≥ 65 years) with rheumatoid arthritis were selected from a population-based cohort.
Analysis included patients who paid a maximum dispensing fee of $200 for the calendar year, comparing cost-sharing and free periods.
Utilization patterns were compared across four years, focusing on hospital admissions, physician visits, and prescriptions filled.
During the cost-sharing period, there were 0.38 more physician visits per month (p < 0.001).
There were 0.50 fewer prescriptions filled per month (p = 0.001) during cost-sharing compared to the free period.
Patients admitted to the hospital experienced 0.013 more admissions per month during the cost-sharing period (p = 0.03).

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Farlow et al. (2004) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a5fa6ef4b5cbccdc3070943 https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000144279.21502.b7

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Randomized trial shows increased health resource utilization in elderly patients during cost-sharing periods, indicating unexpected consequences of cost containment policies.

Impact of APOE in mild cognitive impairment

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Impact of APOE in mild cognitive impairment

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