Estimating proportion of days covered (PDC) using real-world online medicine suppliers' datasets

• Main Authors: David Prieto-Merino (Author), Amy Mulick (Author), Craig Armstrong (Author), Helen Hoult (Author), Scott Fawcett (Author), Lina Eliasson (Author), Sarah Clifford (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background The proportion of days covered (PDC) is used to estimate medication adherence by looking at the proportion of days in which a person has access to the medication, over a given period of interest. This study aimed to adapt the PDC algorithm to allow for plausible assumptions about prescrip...