Dartmouth atlas of Medicare prescription drug use : a report of the Dartmouth Atlas Project / Jeffrey C. Munson, [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munson, Jeffrey C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug utilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Lebanon, N.H. : The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, 2013.

Summary:

Introduction -- References -- Does prescription use vary across regions of the United States? -- Could differences in disease burden explain variation in prescription drug use? -- References -- Variation in effective prescription care -- Effective care for cardiovascular disease -- Effective care for patients with diabetes -- Effective care of patients after a fragility fracture -- Is higher drug spending related to higher rates of effective care? -- Summary -- References -- Does the use of discretionary medications vary? -- Proton pump inhibitors -- Antidepressants -- Dementia medications -- New sedative-hypnotics -- Use of multiple discretionary medications -- Summary -- References -- How does the use of high-risk medications vary? -- The use of high-risk medications -- Use of more than one high-risk medication -- Is high-risk medication use related to other prescribing practices? -- Summary -- References -- How does total Part D spending vary? -- Total Part D spending -- How are total prescription spending and prescription use related? -- How does total Part D spending relate to the use of effective drugs? -- How does total Part D spending relate to the use of discretionary medications? -- How does total Part D spending relate to high-risk medication use? -- Is higher total Part D spending related to the selection of more expensive drugs? -- How does total Part D spending relate to other Medicare spending? -- How does disease burden influence the relationship between Part D spending and other Medicare spending? -- Summary -- References -- What can we learn from regional variation in prescription use? -- What can patients learn? -- What can clinicians learn? -- What can researchers learn? -- What are the implications for medical educators? -- What are the implications for policymakers? -- Utilization, variation, and association - how to interpret the measures -- What is a rate? -- Measures of variation and association -- Methods -- References.

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