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Impact of financial burden, resulting from prescription co-payments, on antihypertensive medication adherence in an older publically insured population

INTRODUCTION: Medication co-payments represent a financial barrier to antihypertensive medication adherence. The introduction of co-payments for Irish publically insured patients was associated with a 5% reduction in adherence. However there is socioeconomic variability within this population, and t...

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Autores principales: Dillon, Paul, Smith, Susan M., Gallagher, Paul, Cousins, Gráinne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6247632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30458754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6209-8