Title: |
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Outpatient Prescribed Medicines: A Comparison of Use and Expenditures, 1987 and 2001 |
Description: |
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This Statistical Brief summarizes data that indicate a significant growth between 1987 and 2001 in the use (i.e., number of purchases) and expenditures for outpatient prescribed medicines in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. The data used are derived from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) and the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Household Component (MEPS-HC). The estimates from the 1987 NMES were adjusted for inflation using data from the 1987 and 2001 Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). |
Author(s): |
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Mamatha Pancholi and Marie Stagnitti |
Agency: |
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Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
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