Medication Adherence Patterns Among Patients with Multiple Serious Mental and Physical Illnesses.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Patients with mental and physical health conditions are complex to treat and often use multiple medications. It is unclear how adherence to one medication predicts adherence to others. A predictive relationship could permit less expensive adherence monitoring if overall adherence could be predicted through tracking a single medication.

Methods

To test this hypothesis, we examined whether patients with multiple mental and physical illnesses have similar adherence trajectories across medications. Specifically, we conducted a retrospective cohort analysis using health insurance claims data for enrollees who were diagnosed with a serious mental illness, initiated an atypical antipsychotic, as well as an SSRI (to treat serious mental illness), biguanides (to treat ty

SUBMITTER: MacEwan JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5960492 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature