Beliefs about generic drugs among elderly adults in hospital-based primary care practices

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 377-383

  Iosifescu, Alice ^a   Halm, Ethan A ^a   McGinn, Thomas ^a   Siu, Albert L ^a,b   Federman, Alex D ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; Beliefs; Elderly; Generic drugs; Low income

Indexed keywords

GENERIC DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRUGS, GENERIC; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53049089162     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.07.012     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Federman A.D., Halm E.A., Zhu C., Hochman T., and Siu A.L. Association of income and prescription drug coverage with generic medication use among older adults with hypertension. Am J Manage Care 12 (2006) 611-618
2. Barrett L. (AARP). Physicians' Attitudes And Practices Regarding Generic Drugs; March 2005.
3. Kravitz R.L., Epstein R.M., Feldman M.D., Franz C.E., Azari R., Wilkes M.S., Hinton L., and Franks P. Influence of patients' requests for direct-to-consumer advertised antidepressants: a randomized controlled trial. J Am Med Assoc 293 (2005) 1995-2002
4. Gellad Z.F., and Lyles K.W. Direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals. Am J Med 120 (2007) 475-480
5. Frosch D.L., Krueger P.M., Hornik R.C., Cronholm P.F., and Barg F.K. Creating demand for prescription drugs: a content analysis of television direct-to-consumer advertising. Ann Fam Med 5 (2007) 6-13
6. Mintzes B., Barer M.L., Kravitz R.L., Kazanjian A., Bassett K., Lexchin J., Evans R.G., Pan R., and Marion S.A. Influence of direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising and patients' requests on prescribing decisions: two site cross sectional survey. Br Med J 324 (2002) 278-279
7. Banahan III B.F., and Kolassa E.M. A physician survey on generic drugs and substitution of critical dose medications. Arch Intern Med 157 (1997) 2080-2088
8. Piette J.D., Heisler M., and Wagner T.H. Problems paying out-of-pocket medication costs among older adults with diabetes. Diabetes Care 27 (2004) 384-391
9. Wilson I.B., Rogers W.H., Chang H., and Safran D.G. Cost-related skipping of medications and other treatments among Medicare beneficiaries between 1998 and 2000. Results of a national study. J Gen Intern Med 20 (2005) 715-720
10. DeSalvo K.B., Fan V.S., McDonell M.B., and Fihn S.D. Predicting mortality and healthcare utilization with a single question. Health Serv Res 40 (2005) 1234-1246
11. Lawton M.P., and Brody E.M. Assessment of older people: self-maintaining and instrumental activities of daily living. Gerontologist 9 (1969) 179-186
12. Poisal J.A. Reporting of drug expenditures in the MCBS. Health Care Financ Rev 25 (2004) 1-4
13. Baker D.W., Williams M.V., Parker R.M., Gazmararian J.A., and Nurss J. Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacy. Patient Educ Couns 38 (1999) 33-42
14. Heisler M., Bouknight R.R., Hayward R.A., Smith D.M., and Kerr E.A. The relative importance of physician communication, participatory decision making, and patient understanding in diabetes self-management. J Gen Intern Med 17 (2002) 243-252
15. Federman A.D., Halm E.A., and Siu A.L. Use of generic cardiovascular medications by elderly Medicare beneficiaries receiving generalist or cardiologist care. Med Care 45 (2007) 109-115
16. Himmel W., Simmenroth-Nayda A., Niebling W., Ledig T., Jansen R.D., Kochen M.M., Gleiter C.H., and Hummers-Pradier E. What do primary care patients think about generic drugs?. Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther 43 (2005) 472-479
17. Pereira J.A., Holbrook A.M., Dolovich L., Goldsmith C., Thabane L., Douketis J.D., Crowther M., Bates S.M., and Ginsberg J.S. Are brand-name and generic warfarin interchangeable? A survey of Ontario patients and physicians. Can J Clin Pharmacol 12 (2005) e229-e239
18. Valles J.A., Barreiro M., Cereza G., Ferro J.J., Martinez M.J., Escriba J.M., Iglesias B., Cucurull E., and Barcelo E. A prospective multicenter study of the effect of patient education on acceptability of generic prescribing in general practice. Health Policy 65 (2003) 269-275
19. Van Wijk B.L., Klungel O.H., Heerdink E.R., and de Boer A. Generic substitution of antihypertensive drugs: does it affect adherence?. Ann Pharmacother 40 (2006) 15-20
20. Ganther J.M., and Kreling D.H. Consumer perceptions of risk and required cost savings for generic prescription drugs. J Am Pharm Assoc (Wash) 40 (2000) 378-383
21. Gazmararian J.A., Baker D.W., Williams M.V., Parker R.M., Scott T.L., Green D.C., Fehrenbach S.N., Ren J., and Koplan J.P. Health literacy among Medicare enrollees in a managed care organization. J Am Med Assoc 281 (1999) 545-551
22. Gazmararian J.A., Williams M.V., Peel J., and Baker D.W. Health literacy and knowledge of chronic disease. Patient Educ Couns 51 (2003) 267-275
23. Schillinger D., Grumbach K., Piette J., Wang F., Osmond D., Daher C., Palacios J., Sullivan G.D., and Bindman A.B. Association of health literacy with diabetes outcomes. J Am Med Assoc 288 (2002) 475-482
24. Wolf M.S., Gazmararian J.A., and Baker D.W. Health literacy and functional health status among older adults. Arch Intern Med 165 (2005) 1946-1952
25. Schillinger D., Machtinger E.L., Wang F., Palacios J., Rodriguez M., and Bindman A. Language, literacy, and communication regarding medication in an anticoagulation clinic: a comparison of verbal vs. visual assessment. J Health Commun 11 (2006) 651-664
26. Cooper-Patrick L., Gallo J.J., Gonzales J.J., Vu H.T., Powe N.R., Nelson C., and Ford D.E. Race, gender, and partnership in the patient-physician relationship. J Am Med Assoc 282 (1999) 583-589
27. Doescher M.P., Saver B.G., Franks P., and Fiscella K. Racial and ethnic disparities in perceptions of physician style and trust. Arch Fam Med 9 (2000) 1156-1163
28. Goldman D.P., Joyce G.F., and Zheng Y. Prescription drug cost sharing: associations with medication and medical utilization and spending and health. J Am Med Assoc 298 (2007) 61-69
29. Huskamp H.A., Deverka P.A., Epstein A.M., Epstein R.S., McGuigan K.A., and Frank R.G. The effect of incentive-based formularies on prescription-drug utilization and spending. N Engl J Med 349 (2003) 2224-2232
30. Federman A.D., and Arnsten J.A. Primary care affiliations of adults in a methadone program with onsite care. J Addict Dis 26 (2007) 27-34
31. Fischer M.A., and Avorn J. Economic consequences of underuse of generic drugs: evidence from Medicaid and implications for prescription drug benefit plans. Health Serv Res 38 (2003) 1051-1063
32. Fischer M.A., and Avorn J. Potential savings from increased use of generic drugs in the elderly: what the experience of Medicaid and other insurance programs means for a Medicare drug benefit. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Safe 13 (2004) 207-214
33. Haas J.S., Phillips K.A., Gerstenberger E.P., and Seger A.C. Potential savings from substituting generic drugs for brand-name drugs: medical expenditure panel survey, 1997-2000. Ann Intern Med 142 (2005) 891-897
34. Iglehart J.K. Prescription-drug coverage for Medicare Beneficaries. N Engl J Med 349 (2003) 923-925
35. Ettner S.L., and Hermann R.C. Inpatient psychiatric treatment of elderly Medicare beneficiaries. Psychiatr Serv 49 (1998) 1173-1179
36. Paasche-Orlow M.K., Schillinger D., Greene S.M., and Wagner E.H. How health care systems can begin to address the challenge of limited literacy. J Gen Intern Med 21 (2006) 884-887
37. Alexander G.C., Casalino L.P., Tseng C.W., McFadden D., and Meltzer D.O. Barriers to patient-physician communication about out-of-pocket costs. J Gen Intern Med 19 (2004) 856-860
38. Alexander G.C., Werner R.M., Fagerlin A., and Ubel P.A. Support for physician deception of insurance companies among a sample of Philadelphia residents. Ann Intern Med 138 (2003) 472-475