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Top 10 outpatient prescription medicines ranked by utilization and expenditures for the near elderly in the U.S. community population, 2002 /

This Statistical Brief provides a summary of the top 10 outpatient prescription medicines for the near elderly, persons age 55-64, in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized (community) population by utilization and expenditures, as reported by household respondents in calendar year 2002. The brief a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stagnitti, Marie N.
Corporate Authors: United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (U.S.)
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: [Rockville, Md.] : Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, [2005]
Series:Statistical brief (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (U.S.)) ; #65.
Subjects:
Prescription pricing > United States.
Drugs > Prices > United States.
Fees, Pharmaceutical > trends > United States > Statistics.
Pharmaceutical Preparations > United States > Statistics.
Middle Aged.
Economics, Pharmaceutical > trends > United States > Statistics.
Health Expenditures > trends > United States > Statistics.
Online Access:https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS103118
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Summary:This Statistical Brief provides a summary of the top 10 outpatient prescription medicines for the near elderly, persons age 55-64, in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized (community) population by utilization and expenditures, as reported by household respondents in calendar year 2002. The brief also provides trends in annual prescribed medicine expenditures for the near elderly from 1996 to 2002.
Item Description:Title from title screen (viewed Sept. 25, 2008).
"February 2005."
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:4 unnumbered pages : digital, PDF file.
Format:Mode of access: Internet from the MEPS AHRQ web site. Address as of 9/25/2008: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data%5Ffiles/publications/st65/stat65.pdf ; current access available via PURL.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.