Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Efforts to reform the U.S. health care system have placed considerable attention on patients' financial burden from out-of-pocket drug costs.Patients frequently have difficulty paying for medications and although they are encouraged to discuss ways to lower drug costs with physicians, such communication frequently fails to occur.[1][2][3][4] Physicians may be reluctant to initiate these cost discussions because some cost-cutting strategies involve potential tradeoffs such as increased dosing frequency, or risk of side effects, or lower treatment effectiveness. 1 Knowing patients' willingness to consider such less than optimal costlowering strategies could encourage physicians to discuss drug costs with their patients.
Source: Archives of Internal Medicine
Institutions: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Indiana University, University of Michigan, Kaiser Permanente, Hawaii Medical Service Association, University of California, Los Angeles, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, University of California, San Francisco
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1600382903