We focused on the benefit of FDS in medication classes without generic options.
Because there are other ways of increasing brand to generic switches (e.g. state laws that require generic medications be dispensed when available), we selected two medication classes without generic medications available during the time period considered.
Because no prior studies concentrated on the effect of FDS in medication classes without generic alternatives, it was difficult to directly compare our estimate of the association of FDS with medication tier to those found in these studies [ 6, 8, 22].
Since the study was exploratory in nature, we used multiple testing without correction to compare each therapy class with the conventional medication class.
Taking a medication class was defined as taking any drug within the medication class per day.
Table 4 displays acute and prophylactic medication use data by medication class.
We evaluated treatment length for each initial medication class.
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Absolute MIF levels were associated with medication class (overall effect of medication p = 0.038).
