Measuring Prescription Adherence for Pharmaceutical Prescription Refills
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Primary non-adherence was defined as a binary outcome representing failure to fill a new prescription within 30 days after the medication was prescribed to the patient and secondary non-adherence was defined as a number of refills obtained by a patient within a 12 month follow up period. Various measured patient, prescription, and prescribing physician characteristics were included in the model...
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