Variation in adherence to medications across the healthcare system in two comparative effectiveness research cohorts

AIM: To assess heterogeneity in adherence to medications in two example comparative effectiveness research studies.

PATIENTS & METHODS: We analyzed data from commercially insured patients initiating a statin or anticoagulant during 2005-2012. We calculated the cross-validated R2 from a series of hierarchical linear models to assess variation in 1-year adherence.

RESULTS: There was less heterogeneity in adherence in the statin cohort compared with the anticoagulant cohort, where patient characteristics explained 7.2% of variation in adherence, and adding therapy and provider characteristics increased the proportion of variation explained to 8.0 and 8.5%, cumulatively. Random effects provided essentially no explanatory power, even in the statin cohort with large numbers of patients clustered within each pharmacy, prescriber and provider.

CONCLUSION: The dependence of adherence on the healthcare system was stronger when the healthcare system influenced treatment choice and patient access to medication and when indications for treatment were strong.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:6

Enthalten in:

Journal of comparative effectiveness research - 6(2017), 7 vom: 03. Okt., Seite 613-625

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Franklin, Jessica M [VerfasserIn]
Donneyong, Macarius M [VerfasserIn]
Desai, Rishi J [VerfasserIn]
Markson, Leona [VerfasserIn]
Girman, Cynthia J [VerfasserIn]
McKay, Caroline [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Mehul D [VerfasserIn]
Mavros, Panagiotis [VerfasserIn]
Schneeweiss, Sebastian [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adherence
Anticoagulants
Comparative effectiveness research
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
Journal Article
Mixed models

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 07.06.2019

Date Revised 07.06.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2217/cer-2016-0095

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM277083559