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Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Methods The study included individuals aged 75 to 90 years, diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension, who were treated with at least one antihypertensive, or antidiabetic medication in 2017. We retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019.

Hypertension

Hypertension Diabetes ER Medical

Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

We used the first six years of the dataset to form a predictive model using Holt-Winters forecasting (a time series predictive method based on trends and seasonality), and then compared the observed data from November 2019 to November 2020 with the model to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prescribing.

Primary Care

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Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

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