Disease-modifying therapy prescription patterns in people with multiple sclerosis by age
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Multiple sclerosis disease-modifying therapy prescribing patterns in Ontario.
BACKGROUND Differences in Multiple sclerosis (MS) disease-modifying therapy (DMT) prescribing patterns between different groups of neurologists have not been explored. OBJECTIVE To examine concentrations of prescribing patterns and to assess if MS-specialists use a broader range of DMTs relative to general neurologists. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study using administrative claim...
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عنوان ژورنال: Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1756-2864,1756-2864
DOI: 10.1177/17562864211006499