Estimating proportion of days covered (PDC) using real-world online medicine suppliers’ datasets

Background The proportion of days covered (PDC) is used to estimate medication adherence by looking at the proportion of days in which a person has access to the medication, over a given period of interest. This study aimed to adapt the PDC algorithm to allow for plausible assumptions about prescrip...

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Main Authors: David Prieto-Merino, Amy Mulick, Craig Armstrong, Helen Hoult, Scott Fawcett, Lina Eliasson, Sarah Clifford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-12-01
Series:Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40545-021-00385-w