Primary medication nonadherence in a large primary care population: Observational study from Manitoba.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyze primary medication nonadherence across several prescription indications and test the predictors of drug nonadherence in an adult primary care population.

Design

Retrospective observational study using primary care provider prescriptions linked to pharmacy-based dispensing data from 2012 to 2014.

Setting

Manitoba.

Participants

Patients in the Manitoba Primary Care Research Network.

Main outcome measures

Prevalence of primary medication nonadherence by drug class. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to test the associations of patient demographic and clinical or provider characteristics with primary medication nonadherence. The C statistic was used to assess the models' discriminative performance.

Results

A total

SUBMITTER: Singer AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9842140 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature