Medicine Costs
Cross-source consensus on Medicine Costs from 1 sources and 4 claims.
1 sources · 4 claims
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Highlighted claims
- Medicines accounted for the largest share of OOPE in the study. — Hospitalisation, associated factors and out-of-pocket expenditure among patients with multimorbidity in Kerala, India: a cross-sectional study
- Medicine costs were described as the dominant expenditure component in chronic care. — Hospitalisation, associated factors and out-of-pocket expenditure among patients with multimorbidity in Kerala, India: a cross-sectional study
- The study could not identify whether drug costs were driven by branded prescribing, public-sector stock gaps, private purchasing, or prescribing practices. — Hospitalisation, associated factors and out-of-pocket expenditure among patients with multimorbidity in Kerala, India: a cross-sectional study
- Expanding affordable access to essential and generic medicines was identified as a policy priority. — Hospitalisation, associated factors and out-of-pocket expenditure among patients with multimorbidity in Kerala, India: a cross-sectional study