Does a Patient-Directed Financial Incentive Affect Patient Choices About Controller Medicines for Asthma? A Discrete Choice Experiment and Financial Impact Analysis
Author(s) -
TraceyLea Laba,
Helen K. Reddel,
Nicholas Zwar,
Guy B. Marks,
Elizabeth E. Roughead,
Anthony Flynn,
Michele Goldman,
Aine Heaney,
Kirsty Lembke,
Stephen Jan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
pharmacoeconomics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.809
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1179-2027
pISSN - 1170-7690
DOI - 10.1007/s40273-018-0731-5
Subject(s) - asthma , medicine , payment , health economics , government (linguistics) , incentive , affect (linguistics) , business , actuarial science , finance , economics , public health , nursing , microeconomics , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , communication
In Australia, many patients who are initiated on asthma controller inhalers receive combination inhaled corticosteroid/long-acting beta 2 -agonist (ICS/LABA) despite having asthma of sufficiently low severity that ICS-alone would be equally effective and less costly for the government.
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