Diversity of Participants in the 340B Drug Pricing Program for US Hospitals
Diversity of Participants in the 340B Drug Pricing Program for US Hospitals
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美国医院340B药品定价计划参与者的多样性
DOI:
10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.2015
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
39
通讯作者:
R. Conti
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文献类型:
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作者:
S. Nikpay;Melinda Buntin;R. Conti
increasing overall rates of prophylaxis rather than overall appropriateness. Although overall rates have improved, the unintended consequence may be excess administration of VTE prophylaxis among low-risk patients. The major drawback to pharmacologic overprophylaxis is major bleeding.5 Patient discomfort, potential risk of falls and impaired mobility with mechanical prophylaxis, medication cost, and risk for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia are additional concerns. Limitations of this study include its observational design subject to inherent biases. Furthermore, this analysis did not incorporate VTE events, so it is unknown whether 1 specific VTE prophylaxis strategy was superior to another. After years of promoting aggressive VTE prophylaxis strategies for hospitalized patients, renewed effort to scale back—or “deimplement”—this practice in low-risk patients may be necessary.6 Discontinuing conventional practices, however, can be difficult, even in the presence of newer compelling data.