The relationship between emergency department use and cost-related medication nonadherence among medicare beneficiaries

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 475-485

  Blanchard, Janice ^a   Madden, Jeanne M ^b   Ross Degnan, Dennis ^b   Gresenz, Carol Roan ^c   Soumerai, Stephen B ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

AGED; DISABLED PERSONS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCRIPTION FEES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886949122     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.04.013     Document Type: Article

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