Journal article
Race/ethnicity, disability, and medication adherence among medicare beneficiaries with heart failure
Y Zhang, SH Baik
Journal of General Internal Medicine | SPRINGER | Published : 2014
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Recent and national data on adherence to heart failure drugs are limited, particularly among the disabled and some small minority groups, such as Native Americans and Hispanics. OBJECTIVE: We compare medication adherence among Medicare patients with heart failure, by disability status, race/ethnicity, and income. DESIGN: Observational study. SETTING: US Medicare Parts A, B, and D data, 5 % random sample, 2007-2009. PARTICIPANTS: 149,893 elderly Medicare beneficiaries and 21,204 disabled non-elderly beneficiaries. MAIN MEASURES: We examined 5 % of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with heart failure in 2007-2009. The main outcome was 1-year adherence to one of three therapeut..
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Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health
Funding Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Institute of Medicine, National Institute of Mental Health (No. RC1 MH088510) and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (No. R01 HS018657) to Dr. Zhang.