Continuity of care and its effect on prescription drug use among medicare beneficiaries with hypertension

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Prescription Drugs 94%
• Continuity of Patient Care 92%
• Medicare 82%
• Hypertension 51%
• Elderly 15%
• Sodium Chloride Symporter Inhibitors 15%
• Pharmaceutical Preparations 14%
• Drug Costs 13%
• Treatment Adherence and Compliance 13%
• Propensity Score 12%
• Antihypertensive Agents 10%
• Health Services 10%
• Primary Health Care 9%
• Physicians 7%
• Control Groups 6%
• Therapeutics 1%

Social Sciences

• hypertension 100%
• drug use 70%
• medication 68%
• continuity 66%
• drug 30%
• Group 16%
• health service 7%
• physician 6%
• costs 5%
• evidence 3%