Development of a refill pattern method to measure polypharmacy in administrative claims databases.

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Abstract

The purposes of the study were to develop a refill pattern method to identify polypharmacy in pharmacy billing records and to compare the method with traditional days' supply overlap algorithms.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf

Title: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

Publisher: Wiley

ISSN (Electronic): 1099-1557

ISSN (Print): 1053-8569

Publication date (Electronic): December 2016

Volume: 25

Issue: 12

Affiliations

[1 ] Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

[2 ] Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

[3 ] Department of Epidemiology, College of Medicine and Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

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DOI: 10.1002/pds.4082

PubMed ID: 27528378

SO-VID: 8ec10883-0927-498c-ba4e-c82327d300ef

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Keywords: polypharmacy,Medicaid,administrative database,pharmacoepidemiology

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Keywords: polypharmacy, Medicaid, administrative database, pharmacoepidemiology

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