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SUBMITTER: Maciel A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5764291 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment 20180108
The burden of depression significantly impacts the patient, the health care system, and society, at large. Medication management guided by pharmacogenetics has been shown to increase therapeutic efficacy and improve symptoms in patients diagnosed with depression, but limited data are available on the cost savings of pharmacogenetic-guided interventions outside of psychiatric clinical specialties. Our study utilizes published health care costs and clinical patient outcome data to model the econom ...[more]