"Drug Costs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The amount that a health care institution or organization pays for its drugs. It is one component of the final price that is charged to the consumer (FEES, PHARMACEUTICAL or PRESCRIPTION FEES).
| Descriptor ID |
D016527
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.151.400.350 N05.300.375.300
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| Concept/Terms |
Drug Costs- Drug Costs
- Cost, Drug
- Costs, Drug
- Drug Cost
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drug Costs" by people in Profiles.
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Patient and Plan Spending after State Specialty-Drug Out-of-Pocket Spending Caps. N Engl J Med. 2020 08 06; 383(6):558-566.
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Postoperative Opioid Analgesia Impacts Resource Utilization in Infants Undergoing Pyloromyotomy. J Surg Res. 2020 11; 255:594-601.
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Health Care Costs by Type of Expenditure across eGFR Stages among Patients with and without Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Heart Failure. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 07; 31(7):1594-1601.
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Should national pharmacare apply a value-based insurance design? CMAJ. 2019 07 22; 191(29):E811-E815.
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Using Performance-Based Risk-Sharing Arrangements to Address Uncertainty in Indication-Based Pricing. J Manag Care Spec Pharm. 2017 Oct; 23(10):1010-1015.
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Improving Adherence to Cardiovascular Therapies: An Economic Evaluation of a Randomized Pragmatic Trial. Value Health. 2016 Mar-Apr; 19(2):176-84.
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Comparing Medical Costs and Use After Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding and Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. JAMA Surg. 2015 Aug; 150(8):787-94.
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Adherence to Metformin, Statins, and ACE/ARBs Within the Diabetes Health Plan (DHP). J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Nov; 30(11):1645-50.
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Design, implementation, and first-year outcomes of a value-based drug formulary. J Manag Care Spec Pharm. 2015 Apr; 21(4):269-75.
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Economic evaluation of the prophylaxis for thromboembolism in critical care trial (E-PROTECT): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2014 Dec 20; 15:502.