Open AccessFailure to Fill Electronically Prescribed Antidepressant Medications
Author(s) -
Shan Xing,
Bethany A. DiPaula,
Helen Y. Lee,
Catherine E. Cooke
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
primary care companion to cns disorders/the primary care companion for cns disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 2155-7772
pISSN - 2155-7780
DOI - 10.4088/pcc.10m00998blu
Subject(s) - medical prescription , medicine , pharmacy , sertraline , venlafaxine , antidepressant , logistic regression , odds ratio , retrospective cohort study , psychiatry , emergency medicine , family medicine , pharmacology , anxiety
Nonadherence to antidepressants has been reported to range widely from 10% to 60%. Most adherence studies focus on persistence of use and do not include prescriptions that are not picked up by the patient. The objectives of this study were to determine the rate of unfilled antidepressant prescriptions as well as to identify factors associated with failure to fill these prescriptions.