Depression and cost-related medication nonadherence in medicare beneficiaries

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 602-608

  Bambauer, Kara Zivin ^a,d,e   Safran, Dana Gelb ^b   Ross Degnan, Dennis ^a   Zhang, Fang ^a   Adams, Alyce S ^a   Gurwitz, Jerry ^c   Pierre Jacques, Marsha ^a   Soumerai, Stephen B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISABLED PERSON; DRUG COST; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISABLED PERSONS; DRUG COSTS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES; MALE; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 34248228117     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.64.5.602     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Berndt ER, Koran LM, Finkelstein SN, Gelenberg AJ, Kornstein SG, Miller IM, Thase ME, Trapp GA, Keller MB. Lost human capital from early-onset chronic depression. Am J Psychiatry. 2000;157:940-947.
2. Druss BG, Rosenheck RA, Sledge WH. Health and disability costs of depressive illness in a major U.S. corporation. Am J Psychiatry. 2000;157:1274-1278.
3. Dunlop DD, Manheim LM, Song J, Lyons JS, Chang RW. Incidence of disability among preretirement adults: the impact of depression. Am J Public Health. 2005;95:2003-2008.
4. Lorant V, Deliege D, Eaton W, Robert A, Philippot P, Ansseau M. Socioeconomic inequalities in depression: a meta-analysis. Am J Epidemiol. 2003;157:98-112.
5. Charlson M, Peterson JC. Medical comorbidity and late life depression: what is known and what are the unmet needs? Biol Psychiatry. 2002;52:226-235.
6. Anderson RJ, Freedland KE, Clouse RE, Lustman PJ. The prevalence of comorbid depression in adults with diabetes: a meta-analysis. Diabetes Care. 2001;24:1069-1078.
7. Nemeroff CB, Musselman DL, Evans DL. Depression and cardiac disease. Depress Anxiety. 1998;8(suppl 1):71-79.
8. Kim HFS, Braun U, Kunik ME. Anxiety and depression in medically ill older adults. J Clin Geropsychol. 2001;7:117-130.
9. Lee HB, Lyketsos CG. Depression in Alzheimer's disease: heterogeneity and related issues. Biol Psychiatry. 2003;54:353-362.
10. Crott R, Gilis P. Economic comparisons of the pharmacotherapy of depression: an overview. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1998;97:241-252.
11. Williams JW Jr, Mulrow CD, Chiquette E, Noel PH, Aguilar C, Cornell J. A systematic review of newer pharmacotherapies for depression in adults: evidence report summary. Ann Intern Med. 2000;132:743-756.
12. Melfi CA, Chawla AJ, Croghan TW, Hanna MP, Kennedy S, Sredl K. The effects of adherence to antidepressant treatment guidelines on relapse and recurrence of depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1998;55:1128-1132.
13. DiMatteo MR, Lepper HS, Croghan TW. Depression is a risk factor for noncompliance with medical treatment: meta-analysis of the effects of anxiety and depression on patient adherence. Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:2101-2107.
14. Soumerai SB, Pierre-Jacques M, Zhang F, Ross-Degnan D, Adams AS, Gurwitz J, Adler G, Safran DG. Cost-related medication nonadherence among elderly and disabled Medicare beneficiaries: a national survey 1 year before the Medicare drug benefit. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1829-1835.
15. Safran DG, Neuman P, Schoen C, Kitchman MS, Wilson IB, Cooper B, Li A, Chang H, Rogers WH. Prescription drug coverage and seniors: findings from a 2003 national survey. Health Aff (Millwood). January-June 2005(suppl Web exclusives): W5-152-W5-166.
16. Safran DG, Neuman P, Schoen C, Montgomery JE, Li W, Wilson IB, Kitchman MS, Bowen AE, Rogers WH. Prescription drug coverage and seniors: how well are states closing the gap? Health Aff (Millwood). July-December 2002(suppl Web exclusives):W253-W268.
17. Kennedy J, Erb CBA. Prescription noncompliance due to cost among adults with disabilities in the United States. Am J Public Health. 2002;92:1120-1124.
18. Piette JD, Heisler M, Wagner TH. Cost-related medication underuse: do patients with chronic illnesses tell their doctors? Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:1749-1755.
19. Heisler M, Wagner TH, Piette JD. Clinician identification of chronically ill patients who have problems paying for prescription medications. Am J Med. 2004;116:753-758.
20. Piette JD, Heisler M, Wagner TH. Cost-related medication underuse among chronically ill adults: the treatments people forgo, how often, and who is at risk. Am J Public Health. 2004;94:1782-1787.
21. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Medicare current beneficiary survey. http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/mcbs/. Accessed March 20, 2006.
22. Crystal S, Sambamoorthi U, Walkup JT, Akincigil A. Diagnosis and treatment of depression in the elderly Medicare population: predictors, disparities, and trends. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2003;51:1718-1728.
23. Briesacher B, Stuart B, Doshi J, Kamal-Bahl S, Shea D. Medicare's Disabled Beneficiaries: The Forgotten Population in the Debate Over Drug Benefits. The Commonwealth Fund and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; 2002.
24. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, (Fourth Edition). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 1994.
25. Waldo DR. Symptoms of depression among aged Medicare enrollees 2002. Health Care Health Care Financ Rev. 2004;26:143-155.
26. Spitzer RL, Williams JB, Kroenke K, Linzer M, deGruy FV III, Hahn SR, Brody D, Johnson JG. Utility of a new procedure for diagnosing mental disorders in primary care: the PRIME-MD 1000 study. JAMA. 1994;272:1749-1756.
27. Spitzer RL, Kroenke K, Williams JB. Validation and utility of a self-report version of PRIME-MD: the PHQ primary care study, primary care evaluation of mental disorders, patient health questionnaire. JAMA. 1999;282:1737-1744.
28. Spitzer RL, Williams BW, Kroenke K, Linzer M, deGruy FV, Hahn SR, Brody D. Primary care evaluation of mental disorders (PRIME-MD). In: Rush AJ, American Psychiatric Association Task Force for the Handbook of Psychiatric Measures, eds. Handbook of Psychiatric Measures. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 2000.
29. Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB. The Patient Health Questionnaire-2: validity of a two-item depression screener. Med Care. 2003;41:1284-1292.
30. Beck AT, Steer RA, Brown GK. Manual for the Beck Depression Inventory. 2nd ed. San Antonio, Tex: Psychological Corporation; 1996.
31. Whooley MA, Avins AL, Miranda J, Browner WS. Case-finding instruments for depression: two questions are as good as many. J Gen Intern Med. 1997;12:439-445.
32. Rogers WH, Wilson IB, Bungay KM, Cynn DJ, Adler DA. Assessing the performance of a new depression screener for primary care (PC-SAD). J Clin Epidemiol. 2002;55:164-175.
33. Rogers WH, Adler DA, Bungay KM, Wilson IB. Depression screening instruments made good severity measures in a cross-sectional analysis. J Clin Epidemiol. 2005;58:370-377.
34. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Technical Documentation for the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, 2003 Access to Care, Section 5: Sample Design and Guidelines for Preparing Statistics [Book on CD-Rom]. Baltimore, Md: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary; 2005.
35. Bartels SJ. Improving the system of care for older adults with mental illness in the United States: findings and recommendations for the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2003;11:486-497.
36. National Institute for Health Care Management. Prescription Drug Expenditures in 2001: Another Year of Escalating Costs. Washington, DC: National Institute for Health Care Management; 2002.
37. Lavretsky H, Kumar A. Clinically significant non-major depression: old concepts, new insights. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2002;10:239-255.
38. Bruce ML. The association between depression and disability. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 1999;7:8-11.
39. Rhodes A, Liisa Jaakkimainen R, Bondy S, Fung K. Depression and mental health visits to physicians. Soc Sci Med. 2006;62:828-834.