This study illustrates the healthcare utilization patterns, direct costs, and sustained virologic response rates associated with interferon-based therapies for hepatitis C patients.
Within the last 5 years changes to oncology private practice have led to these clinics aligning themselves with larger entities to maintain their practices.
An estimation of the direct healthcare and indirect work-loss cost burden of chronic HCV using health insurance claims covering 13 million individuals.
Although there is no one-size-fits-all approach to promoting vaccine confidence, a conversation is a great starting point.
The value of big data in health care is realized when raw data are transformed into insights that drive practice change and decision making.
Efforts to compare strategies for healthcare delivery must evaluate effectiveness in terms of the outcomes that we care about most.
While fibromyalgia is associated with a small increase in healthcare costs compared with matched controls, chronic opioid use in these patients results in a large increase.
An estimation of the direct healthcare and indirect work-loss cost burden of chronic HCV using health insurance claims covering 13 million individuals.
Methotrexate >15 mg weekly and adalimumab as first-line therapy were positive predictors of anti-TNF-a response in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Whistleblower suits arise from claims for reimbursement under Medicare, Medicaid, or TRICARE.
The health care setting has the largest and most diverse array of agents that are hazardous to humans.
Once patients receive their new organs, the specialty pharmacy can help them navigate through lifelong, complex transplant therapy. Here's a look at one such program.
The findings of a retrospective study suggest that timing of heart failure (HF)-related pharmacotherapy following a HF-related encounter has potential implications on subsequent healthcare costs.
These drugs have interesting mechanisms, unique use, or may support expanded indications in the future.
The best natural and dietary supplements get turned into drugs. This is what happened to Vitamin A.
Five risk factors increased the likelihood of problematic alcohol consumption in older women.
Guidance on the use of basal insulins (BI) and insulin pens to enable pharmacists to answer questions regarding the safe and effective use of BI for the management of diabetes.
There has never been such widespread and popularized use of compounded products due to shortages. Will consumers rise up with pitchforks if the party is shut down?
National attention in the pharmacy press has focused recently on pharmacists being recognized as providers under federal health programs such as the Medication Modernization Act.
Pharmacist-led refill authorizations are a practical solution to the nation’s health care crisis, helping to improve quality while reducing costs as well as saving physicians’ time.
Early diagnosis, surgery while cancer is confined to kidney are key, but pharmacological agents are used for Stage IV.