Prevalence of Universal Medication Schedule prescribing and links to adherence.

Purpose: A Universal Medication Schedule (UMS) that uses explicit language to describe when to take medicine has been proposed as a patient-centered prescribing and dispensing standard. Despite widespread support, evidence of its actual use and efficacy is limited. We investigated the prevalence of UMS instructions and whether their use was associated with higher rates of medication adherence.

A cross-sectional study of physical activity participation among adults with chronic conditions participating in a digital health program.

Objective: Many American adults are insufficiently active. Digital health programs are designed to motivate this population to engage in regular physical activity and often rely on wearable devices and apps to objectively measure physical activity for a large number of participants. The purpose of this epidemiological study was to analyze the rates of physical activity among participants in a digital health program.

Effect of Medicare Part D on potentially inappropriate medication use by older adults.

Objectives: To empirically estimate changes of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use attributable to the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit.

Design: Difference-in-difference strategy in the quasi-experimental design with a control group.

Setting: U.

Potentially inappropriate medication use and healthcare expenditures in the US community-dwelling elderly.

Background: Potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use is a major source of drug-related problems in the elderly. Few studies have quantified the effect of PIM use on total healthcare expenditures in the United States.

Objectives: : We sought to determine the relationship between PIM use and healthcare expenditure and to estimate the annual incremental healthcare expenditures related to PIM use in the community-dwelling elderly population in the United States in 2001.

Potentially inappropriate drug use and health-related quality of life in the elderly.

Study Objective: To investigate the relationship between two widely used, generic health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures, Short Form-12 (SF-12) and EuroQol's EQ-5D, and potentially inappropriate drug use in an elderly cohort.

Design: Longitudinal retrospective cohort study.

Data Source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, panel 5.