Association between medication adherence and non-drug healthcare utilisation and costs: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study among US women age 65 and older.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore the association between hormone therapy (HT) adherence and non-drug healthcare utilisation and healthcare costs among patients with breast cancer.

Design

Retrospective longitudinal cohort study.

Setting

The US Medicare beneficiaries in the SEER-Medicare-linked database PARTICIPANTS: Women aged ≥ 65 with hormone-receptor positive breast cancer from 2007 through mid-2009 in the USA.

Interventions

We examined the relationship between HT and adherence and outcomes of our interests.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Our study cohort's HT adherence, non-drug healthcare utilisation and healthcare costs for the first year of HT and each year, thereafter, for a total of 5 years.

Results

6045 eligible Medicare beneficiaries that m

SUBMITTER: Ma S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8655572 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature