The Care Span: Medication affordability gains following medicare Part D are eroding among elderly with multiple chronic conditions

Health Affairs

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1435-1443

  Naci, Huseyin ^a,b   Soumerai, Stephen B ^a   Ross Degna, Dennis ^a   Zhang, Fang ^a   Briesacher, Becky A ^c   Gurwitz, Jerry H ^c,d   Madden, Jeanne M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; BASIC NEEDS; DRUG COST; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; FEE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE PART D; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; PRESCRIPTION FEES; PREVALENCE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905980743     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.1067     Document Type: Article

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