Trends in the prescription of antidiabetic medications in France: Evidence from primary care physicians
| Autor: | Kristina Secnik Boyc, Maureen J. Lage, Nicole Yurgin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Combination therapy medicine.drug_class Population Type 2 diabetes Pharmacology Drug Prescriptions Diabetes Complications Insurance Claim Review Sex Factors Pharmacotherapy Diabetes mellitus Internal medicine medicine Humans Hypoglycemic Agents Pharmacology (medical) Practice Patterns Physicians' Medical prescription education Aged Retrospective Studies Analysis of Variance Univariate analysis education.field_of_study business.industry Age Factors Physicians Family General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Sulfonylurea Drug Utilization Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Regression Analysis Drug Therapy Combination Female France business |
| Zdroj: | Advances in Therapy. 24:803-813 |
| ISSN: | 1865-8652 0741-238X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf02849973 |
| Popis: | This study examined prescribing patterns for antidiabetic medications in France and explored the relationships between those patterns and changes in patient characteristics. Data were obtained from the IMS Disease Analyzer-Mediplus France Database (IMS Health Incorporated, London, United Kingdom). Patients were included in the study if they were identified as having type 2 diabetes during the calendar years 2001 to 2003. Univariate analyses examined changes in patient characteristics and trends in prescribing over time. In addition, multivariate logistic regression analysis examined the impact of the year on the likelihood of a patient's receiving prescriptions for a specific therapy. A total of 14,281 unique diabetic patients were studied during the years 2001 through 2003. An average of 1.28 drug therapy episodes per calendar year was reported among individual users of antidiabetic agents. Univariate analysis revealed that between 2001 and 2003, monotherapy with sulfonylurea decreased from 34.98% to 29.47% (P |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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