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6 th Annual Primary Care Spring Conference Thursday, April 12, 2012 Cost Consciousness in Patient Care — What Is Medical Education’s Responsibility? Molly Cooke, M.D. • “Value can be increased through costconscious diagnostic and management strategies and by the engineering of better and less wasteful processes of care. Evidence-based medicine and comparativeeffectiveness research help us understand the relative effectiveness of management strategies; appreciation of cost and metrics such as “number needed to treat” help us approach value.” – NEJM 2010, 362;14:1253 3 How Many Prescriptions Go Unfilled? • Oct. 26, 2011 Twenty four percent of patients given a new medication by their doctor did not fill the prescription in 2008, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and CVS Caremark and published in the American Journal of Medicine (2011) 124, 1081.e9-1081.e22 4 Wayne Weart, Pharm D Cost Effective Rx

6 th Annual Primary Care Spring Conference Thursday, April 12, 2012 AARP Rx Watchdog Report • Rx Price Watch Report August 2010 – Trends in Retail Prices of Brand Name Prescription Drugs Widely Used by Medicare Beneficiaries 2005 to 2009 • By Stephen W. Schondelmeyer PRIME Institute, University of Minnesota • Leigh Purvis AARP Public Policy Institute 5 Average Annual % Change in Retail Prices for Widely Used Brand Name Prescription Medications AARP Rx Price Watch Report 8-2010 http://www.aarp.org/ppi 6 Wayne Weart, Pharm D Cost Effective Rx

6 th Annual Primary Care Spring Conference Thursday, April 12, 2012<br />

Cost Consciousness in Patient Care — What Is<br />

Medical<br />

Education’s Responsibility?<br />

Molly Cooke, M.D.<br />

• “Value can be increased through costconscious<br />

diagnostic and management<br />

strategies and by the engineering of better<br />

and less wasteful processes of care.<br />

Evidence-based medicine and comparativeeffectiveness<br />

research help us understand<br />

the relative effectiveness of management<br />

strategies; appreciation of cost and metrics<br />

such as “number needed to treat” help us<br />

approach value.”<br />

– NEJM 2010, 362;14:1253<br />

3<br />

How Many Prescriptions Go Unfilled?<br />

• Oct. 26, 2011 Twenty four percent of patients<br />

given a new medication by their doctor did<br />

not fill the prescription in 2008, according to a<br />

new study by researchers at Harvard<br />

University, Brigham and Women's Hospital<br />

and CVS Caremark and published in the<br />

American Journal of Medicine (2011) 124,<br />

1081.e9-1081.e22<br />

4<br />

Wayne Weart, Pharm D<br />

Cost Effective Rx

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