Does Spatial Accessibility of Pharmacy Services Predict Compliance with Long-Term Control Medications?
| Autor: | Stephen J. Teach, Deborah M. Quint, Mark F. Guagliardo, William A. Huber |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Pharmacy Disease Logistic regression Health Services Accessibility Compliance (psychology) Adrenal Cortex Hormones Intervention (counseling) medicine Humans Immunology and Allergy Asthma business.industry medicine.disease Disadvantaged Child Preschool Pharmaceutical Services Family medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Physical therapy Patient Compliance Female business Long term control |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Asthma. 44:881-883 |
| ISSN: | 1532-4303 0277-0903 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02770900701752680 |
| Popis: | Background: Disadvantaged urban children with asthma are at high risk for undermanagement of their disease and poor compliance with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS). Objective: To determine whether spatial accessibility (SA) of retail pharmacy services is associated with ICS compliance. Methods: Caregivers of 137 urban high-morbidity asthmatic children attended a comprehensive intervention to improve asthma care and outcomes. Subsequent ICS compliance was determined at 1, 3, and 6 months. We modeled 18 measures of SA to 339 pharmacies using logistic regression and adjusting for numerous covariates. Results: No relationships between SA and compliance were found. Conclusions: In this group of disadvantaged urban children with severe asthma, compliance with ICS was not significantly associated with SA of retail pharmacy services. |
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