Effect of an outpatient copayment scheme on health outcomes of hypertensive adults in a community-managed population in Xinjiang, China.

Hypertension remains the leading risk factor for death and disability in China, and the ability of hypertensive patients to pay for outpatient care and medication has become a critical issue. To report the effect of an outpatient copayment scheme on health outcomes of hypertensive adults in a community-managed population in Xinjiang, we compared changes in outcomes between insured and uninsured groups from baseline to the first follow-up appointment in a community-managed hypertensive population and evaluated these changes based on propensity score matching and the difference-in-difference method. A total of 1,095 individuals in a community-managed hypertension population were selected for investigation at baseline, among which 805 (73.

Decomposing the effect of drug benefit program on antihypertensive medication adherence among the elderly in urban China.

Purpose: Hypertension is a rapidly growing epidemic in People's Republic of China, yet it remains inadequately controlled. This study aimed to identify the relative contributions of program effects and patients' characteristics to the differences in antihypertensive medication nonadherence between drug benefit program enrollees and non-enrollees.

Patients And Methods: Data were from a cross-sectional survey of 1,969 community-dwelling elderly adults with hypertension.

Factors affecting medication adherence in community-managed patients with hypertension based on the principal component analysis: evidence from Xinjiang, China.

Purpose: The analysis of factors affecting the nonadherence to antihypertensive medications is important in the control of blood pressure among patients with hypertension. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between factors and medication adherence in Xinjiang community-managed patients with hypertension based on the principal component analysis.

Patients And Methods: A total of 1,916 community-managed patients with hypertension, selected randomly through a multi-stage sampling, participated in the survey.