title: Use of pharmacy claims databases to determine rates of medication adherence.
abstract: Failure to adhere to pharmaceutical therapy leads to poor clinical outcomes and substantially increased healthcare costs. Pharmacy claims databases contain all the information required to determine adherence to therapy for populations and individual patients, but extraction and analysis of these data are difficult and time-consuming. The Standardized Therapy Adherence Research Tool (START) converts pharmacy claims databases into a standardized format to rapidly obtain comprehensive adherence information that can be used to design interventions aimed at improving adherence rates.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Applications, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group, New York, New York 10017, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Day
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012984:Software; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States