A systematic umbrella review of the association of prescription drug insurance and cost-sharing with drug use, health services use, and health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing spending and use of prescription drugs pose an important challenge to governments that seek to expand health insurance coverage to improve population health while controlling public expenditures. Patient cost-sharing such as deductibles and coinsurance is widely used with aim to control healthcare expenditures without adversely affecting health.

Methods

We conducted a systematic umbrella review with a quality assessment of included studies to examine the association of prescription drug insurance and cost-sharing with drug use, health services use, and health. We searched five electronic bibliographic databases, hand-searched eight specialty journals and two working paper repositories, and examined references of relevant reviews. At least two reviewers

SUBMITTER: Guindon GE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8895849 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature