Prescription noncompliance: Contribution to Emergency Department visits and cost

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 909-912

  Olshaker, Jonathan S ^a   Barish, Robert A ^a   Naradzay, Jerome F X ^a   Jerrard, David A ^a   Safir, Ellen ^a   Campbell, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Health care cost; Noncompliance; Prescription drugs

Indexed keywords

BENZATROPINE MESILATE; CLONIDINE; FLUPHENAZINE DECANOATE; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; INSULIN; LITHIUM CARBONATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NIFEDIPINE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PHENYTOIN; RANITIDINE; SALBUTAMOL;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG COST; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEPTIC ULCER; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUTEROL; BALTIMORE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENYTOIN; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0033199395     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-4679(99)00109-2     Document Type: Article

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