TY - BOOK ID - 135373053 TI - Who Is in Control? The Determinants of Patient Adherence with Medication Therapy AU - Koulayev, Sergei. AU - Skipper, Niels. AU - Simeonova, Emilia. AU - National Bureau of Economic Research. PY - 2013 PB - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135373053 AB - Non-compliance with medication therapy remains an unsolved and expensive problem for health care systems around the world. Yet we know little about the factors that determine a patient's decision to follow treatment recommendations. This study uses a unique panel dataset comprising all prescription drug users, physicians, and all prescription drug sales in Denmark over seven years to analyze the contributions of doctor-, patient-, and drug-specific factors to the adherence decision. Our findings have important implications for the design of incentive schemes targeted at improving chronic disease management. ER -