Medication adherence in multiple sclerosis as a potential model for other chronic diseases: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether better medication adherence in multiple sclerosis (MS) might be due to specialised disease-modifying drug (DMD) support programmes by: (1) establishing higher adherence in MS than in other chronic diseases and (2) determining if higher adherence is associated with patient-specific or treatment-specific factors.

Design

Retrospective cohort study with data from 1 January 1996 to 31 December 2015.

Setting

Population-based health administrative data from three Canadian provinces.

Participants

Individual cohorts were created using validated case definitions for MS, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease (PD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Subjects were included if they received ≥1 dispensation for a disease-related drug between 1 January 1997 a

SUBMITTER: Evans C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7925877 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature