From the city to the bush: Increases in patient co-payments for medicines have impacted on medicine use across Australia

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From the city to the bush: Increases in patient co-payments for medicines have impacted on medicine use across Australia

Aim: To determine whether the national declines in prescription medicine use occurring after the 2005 21% increase in co-payments affected all areas of Australia or were specific to remote and disadvantaged areas. Methods: Observed dispensing of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and statins were obtaine...

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Main Authors:	Kemp, A., Glover, J., Preen, D., Bulsara, M., Semmens, James, Roughead, E.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	CSIRO Publishing 2013
Subjects:	dispensing rates medicine use statins remote and disadvantaged areas proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) patient co-payments regression models prescription medicine use
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18814

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