Healthcare Utilization and Statin Re‐Initiation Among Medicare Beneficiaries With a History of Myocardial Infarction

Healthcare Utilization and Statin Re‐Initiation Among Medicare Beneficiaries With a History of Myocardial Infarction

BackgroundContact with the healthcare system represents an opportunity for individuals who discontinue statins to re‐initiate treatment. To help identify opportunities for healthcare providers to emphasize the risk‐lowering benefits accrued through restarting statins, we determined the types of heal...

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Main Authors: John N. Booth, Lisandro D. Colantonio, Robert S. Rosenson, Monika M. Safford, Ligong Chen, Meredith L. Kilgore, Todd M. Brown, Benjamin Taylor, Ricardo Dent, Keri L. Monda, Paul Muntner, Emily B. Levitan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-05-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
case‐crossover
discontinuation
re‐initiation
statin
statin discontinuation
statin re‐initiation
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.117.008462

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