Association between interpersonal continuity of care and medication adherence in type 2 diabetes: an observational cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prior studies have shown that, compared to patients with a low level of interpersonal continuity of care, patients with a high level of continuity of care have a lower likelihood of hospital admission and emergency department visits, and a higher likelihood of patient satisfaction. We sought to determine whether higher levels of continuity of care are associated with medication persistence and compliance among new users of oral antidiabetic treatment.

Methods

We conducted a medicoadministrative cohort study of new users of oral antidiabetics aged 18 years or more among people covered by the Quebec public drug plan. We excluded people with fewer than 730 days of treatment and those who had been in hospital for 275 days or more in the first or second year after init

SUBMITTER: Dossa AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5498180 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature