Medication use vividly illustrates the paradox of overuse, underuse, and misuse of health care in America. While a growing segment of the population overuses certain medicines – including opioids, ...

This study demonstrates that common pharmacy claims-based measures underestimate the effect of actual adherence on inpatient costs among patients with serious mental illness. ABSTRACTObjectives: To ...

Findings indicate that patients using mail order pharmacies had significantly better adherence to antidiabetics, antihypertensives, and antihyperlipidemics than patients who used the retail dispensing ...

Value-based care has steadily gained traction in the United States. At the beginning of the century, only three states had executed value-based care programs. Since 2018, that number has grown to 48 ...

Non-adherence to antihypertensive medication is the most important cause of uncontrolled blood pressure and is influenced by multiple interrelating factors. Understanding the complexity of medication ...