These datasets contained information that included patient's age, sex, admission date, discharge date, diagnosis, medical expenses, medication expenses, laboratory examination items, and operational codes.
Total medical expenses and out-of-pocket medication expenses were collected, imputed as necessary from the RAND datafiles, and divided into quartiles.
The impact of the income level in our study is disputable taking into consideration that all medical health care (in the hospitals or outpatient clinics), as well as medication expenses are covered by the state for all three studied groups.
This scenario is highly beneficial for society because medication expenses are significantly reduced after expiration of the exclusivity period conceded to the branded name drug.
We did not ask participants to report expenses for hospitalizations, office visits, or prescription medication expenses.
The cost of delivery service (excluding laboratory and medication expenses), reported by women with a facility-based birth was analysed.
Annual health expenditures for every NHI enrollee were aggregated from all inpatient, outpatient, and pharmacy store claimed expenses, including claimed reimbursement, medication expenses, and co-payments.
I earn just too much to get a Commonwealth Health Card through thrifty living and wise investment, but have high on-going medication expenses" (O1).
Significantly, such a stewardship program would benefit not just the environment; additional, collateral benefits could automatically accrue, including reducing consumers' medication expenses and improving patient health and consumer safety.
