Steven Morgan

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..A growing number of research bodies internationally have issued laws, guidance or encouragement to support conducting sex and gender based analysis (SGBA) in all health related research...

..We hypothesize this policy increased drug utilization and drug costs, increased patient adherence to medication, and reduced total healthcare resource use...

..Given past research suggesting that registration processes may pose an access barrier to certain subpopulations, we aimed to determine whether registration rates varied across small geographic areas that differed in ethnic composition...

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..Prescription drug expenditures in North America have nearly doubled in the past 5 years, creating intense pressure for all public and private benefits managers and policymakers...

..Rigor of process and transparency of data and rationale are believed to be important for maximizing the impact and political acceptability of the processes...

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..Australia has grappled with this issue for years, even incorporating the goal of "maintaining a responsible and viable medicines industry" into its National Medicines Policy...

..It was also hoped that income-based deductibles would increase consumer price sensitivity in decision-making. This analysis measured policy impacts on private and public expenditure and on expenditure drivers...

..We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of survey and administrative data to examine needs-adjusted rates of prescription drug use by people of different ethnic groups...

..The authors say that value-based benefit designs, reference pricing, and group purchasing could reduce financial barriers and keep down pharmaceutical spending...

..In this paper, we explore the determinants of variations in the use of prescription drugs, drawing on health services theories of access to care...

..We aimed to systematically review and assess published estimates of the cost of developing new drugs...

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..Changes in the mix of therapies and the type of product selected explained over half of the observed drug expenditure inflation. Increased generic substitution significantly reduced the price of products selected over the period...

..We describe lessons from the B.C. experience for jurisdictions interested in basing coverage on evidence of proven comparative advantage for patients' health...

..Canadians spent almost dollars 15 billion, over dollars 460 per capita, on prescription drugs in 2002, yet there is little published evidence regarding the nature and causes of these expenditures...

..The purpose of this study was to examine persistence with prescribed hypertension treatment among newly treated community-dwelling seniors in British Columbia...

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..However, the terminology and methodology used for measuring persistence varied across studies, making it difficult to compare persistence rates...

..Sustainable and equitable pharmacare programs require the political willingness to confront opposition to policies that will, if successful, contain program costs without obstructing access...

..A national standard for "reasonable" catastrophic coverage has yet to be formally defined...

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..But they appeared more receptive to two-tier care and for-profit delivery for the newer and rapidly expanding domains of home care and high-tech care...

..The sustainability of drug spending therefore depends not on outside forces but on decisions made by policy makers, prescribers, and patients...

..The purpose of this research was to measure prevalent and incident statin use in the population of British Columbia from 1996 to 2004 across specific patient characteristics (sociodemographic and clinical)...

..CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that drug plans (and patients) would benefit from more concerted efforts to evaluate the relative cost-effectiveness of competing products within therapeutic categories of drugs...

..This study investigated the prevalence and incidence of antidepressant use in British Columbia over eight years...