Racial-Ethnic Differences in Patterns of Discontinuous Medication Treatment Among Medicaid-Insured Youths With ADHD.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examined the association between race-ethnicity and patterns of medication gaps and discontinuities among Medicaid-insured children initiating pharmacotherapy for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Methods

Medicaid claims data from nine states were used to identify racial-ethnic differences in patterns of ADHD medication treatment among 102,669 children initiating ADHD medication. Multinomial logistic regression with state indicators was used to estimate these differences, with adjustment for individual and contextual confounders.

Results

Approximately three-fifths of the sample did not receive continuous medication treatment as defined by HEDIS guidelines; among them, one-fifth discontinued treatment with no subsequent reinitiation

SUBMITTER: Ji X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5832540 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature