Background: Many Canadians face substantial out-of-pocket charges for prescription drugs.
Prior work suggests that this causes some patients to not take their medications as …

Objectives Many Canadians use prescription medicines that are unnecessary or that can
lead to adverse events. In response, many provinces have introduced programs in which …

Many patients report skipping doses, splitting pills, or not filling prescriptions due to out-of-pocket
costs—a phenomenon known as cost-related non-adherence (CRNA). This study …

Background Multimorbidity is common and frequently associated with medicine nonadherence.
Although cost is a common reason for nonadherence, very little research has quantified …

Chemical and molecular chaperones are organic compounds that protect and stabilize
proteins from damage and aggregation as a result of cellular stress. Using the dogfish (Squalus …

Introduction: The challenges facing emergency medicine (EM) services in Canada reflect
the limitations of the entire healthcare system. The emergency department (ED) is uniquely …

Background: Out-of-pocket drug costs lead many Canadians to engage in cost-related
nonadherence to prescription medications, but our understanding of other consequences such as …

Background Last month, with colleagues we published the largest study to date on problems
of prescription drug affordability reported by Canadians. 1 The study estimated that 8.2% of …

Point 1:… Table 3 (this has been estimated using other surveys, but these questions were a
bit more direct about the impact of cost related nonadherence–though I worry a bit that these …

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