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. 2016 Sep 21;16:499. doi: 10.1186/s12913-016-1752-4

Table 2.

FOLLOW-UP medication use and cost in 2009a

All drugs Generic drugs Brand-name drugs
Follow-up Year (2009) Control Study p-value Control Study p-value Control Study p-value
Medication use
 Number of prescriptions 38.6 38.0 0.97 22.0 23.0 0.08 16.6 15.0 0.04*
 Total days supply 1374 1362 0.67 768 815 0.02* 606 547 0.049*
Total drug cost, $
 Per year 4131 3800 0.11 861 890 0.29 3270 2910 0.049*
 Per 30-day supply 90 83 0.003* 36 34 0.02* 159 152 0.08
Out-of-pocket cost, $
 Per year 545 504 0.18 127 134 0.03* 418 370 0.07
 Per 30-day supply 12 11 0.01* 6 5 0.02* 21 20 0.03*

*Statistically significant at p < 0.05

aMultivariate analyses SAS Proc Mixed 9.4 comparing Control (n = 3061) vs. Study patients (n = 2822), controlling for clustering by provider and controlling for provider specialty. Standard deviations for Follow-up medication use and cost in 2009 are available in Additional file 1: Appendix 2.