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Research Article: Association Between Persistence with Oral Atypical Antipsychotic Medications and Hospital and Emergency Department Utilization in Medicaid Patients with Schizophrenia

Date Published: 2024-01-18

Introduction:
In studies of medication utilization, adherence to and persistence with prescribed medications are important outcomes to measure, as they are well recognized as contributors to the effectiveness of a drug in the real world, compared to the efficacy demonstrated in clinical trials. Adherence is a measure of the percentage of prescribed medication that a patient has presumably consumed. Medication possession ratios (MPRs) or proportions of days covered (PDC) are calculated and patients are often categorized as…

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