Titre :
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Characteristics of Recipients of Free Prescription Drug Samples : A Nationally Representative Analysis. (2008)
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Auteurs :
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Sarah-L CUTRONA ;
David-H BOR ;
David-U HIMMELSTEIN ;
Karen-E LASSER ;
Danny MCCORMICK ;
Steffie WOOLHANDLER ;
Harvard Medical School. Cambridge. USA
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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American journal of public health (vol. 98, n° 2, 2008)
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Pagination :
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284-289
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Homme
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Médicament
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS qmmR0x8j. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives. Free prescription drug samples are used widely in the United States. We sought to examine characteristics of free drug sample recipients nationwide. Methods. We analyzed data on 32681 US residents from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), a nationally representative survey. Results. In 2003,12% of Americans received at least 1 free sample. A higher proportion of persons who had continuous health insurance received a free sample (12.9%) than did persons who were uninsured for part or all of the year (9.9% ; P<. the poorest third of respondents were less likely to receive free samples than those with incomes at federal poverty level or higher. after we controlled for demographic factors found that neither insurance status nor income predictors receipt drug samples. persons who uninsured all part year no more ratio confidence interval continuously insured. conclusions. poor and americans are wealthy insured our findings suggest serve as a marketing tool not safety net.>
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