Healthcare Utilization and Statin Re-Initiation Among Medicare Beneficiaries With a History of Myocardial Infarction.

ABSTRACT: Contact with the healthcare system represents an opportunity for individuals who discontinue statins to re-initiate treatment. To help identify opportunities for healthcare providers to emphasize the risk-lowering benefits accrued through restarting statins, we determined the types of healthcare utilization associated with statin re-initiation among patients with history of a myocardial infarction. Medicare beneficiaries with a statin pharmacy fill claim within 30 days of hospital discharge for a myocardial infarction in 2007 to 2012 (n=158 795) were followed for 182 days postdischarge to identify treatment discontinuation, defined as 60 continuous days without statins (n=24 461). Re-initiation was defined as a statin fill within 365 days of the discontinuation date (n=13 136). Using a cas

SUBMITTER: Booth JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015328 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature