Lower copay and oral administration: Predictors of first-fill adherence to new asthma prescriptions

American Health and Drug Benefits

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 174-179

  Berger, Zackary ^a   Kimbrough, William ^a   Gillespie, Colleen ^a   Boscarino, Joseph A ^b   Wood, G Craig ^b   Qian, Zhengmin ^b   Jones, J B ^b   Shah, Nirav R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMORBIDITY; DRUG COST; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 77953407429     PISSN: 19422962     EISSN: 19422970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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