Medicare-approved drug discount cards and renal transplant patients: How much can these cards reduce prescription costs?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 357-363

  Chisholm, Marie A ^a,b   Marshall, Josh ^a   Smith, Kimberly E ^a   Garrett, Charlene J ^a   Turner, Jeanie C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discount medications; Medicare approved drug discount cards; Renal transplant patients

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE BESYLATE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; ESOMEPRAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE PLUS LOSARTAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METOPROLOL; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NYSTATIN; PREDNISONE; SIMVASTATIN; TACROLIMUS; TERAZOSIN;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CALCULATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DATA BASE; DRUG COST; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERNET; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; INSURANCE, PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICARE; PRESCRIPTION FEES; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; UNITED STATES;

EID: 19044377979     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2005.00349.x     Document Type: Article

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