TY - JOUR
T1 - Medicines compliance and reimbursement level in Portugal
AU - Portela, Maria da Conceição Constantino
AU - Fernandes, Adalberto Campos
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - During a severe financial crisis, it is a priority to use scientific evidence to identify factors that enable therapeutic compliance by patients. This study aimed to evaluate a possible association between the number of patients who attended a medical appointment and had medicine prescribed and the number of these same patients who purchased the prescribed medicine and whether the level of reimbursement was a deciding factor. We perform a correlation analysis at primary care centers in Portugal, between 2010 and 2012 (n = 96). We found a moderate to high positive association, which is statistical significant, between the number of the patients with medicines dispensing and medicines reimbursement levels. The correlation coefficient varies from.5 to.63 (P <.01). The compliance increases along with the increase in the reimbursement levels.
AB - During a severe financial crisis, it is a priority to use scientific evidence to identify factors that enable therapeutic compliance by patients. This study aimed to evaluate a possible association between the number of patients who attended a medical appointment and had medicine prescribed and the number of these same patients who purchased the prescribed medicine and whether the level of reimbursement was a deciding factor. We perform a correlation analysis at primary care centers in Portugal, between 2010 and 2012 (n = 96). We found a moderate to high positive association, which is statistical significant, between the number of the patients with medicines dispensing and medicines reimbursement levels. The correlation coefficient varies from.5 to.63 (P <.01). The compliance increases along with the increase in the reimbursement levels.
KW - access to care
KW - community health centers
KW - efficiency
KW - health economics
KW - primary care
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U2 - 10.1177/2333392815601972
DO - 10.1177/2333392815601972
M3 - Article
C2 - 28462263
VL - 2
JO - Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology
JF - Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology
SN - 2333-3928
ER -