American Heart Journal
Volume 153, Issue 1 , Pages 59-65, January 2007

Comparison of measures of medication persistency using a prescription drug database

  • Marie Hudson, MD, MPH

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Marie Hudson, MD, MPH, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, L-10 421, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1650 Cedar Ave, Montreal, Quebec, Canda H3G 1A4.
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  • Elham Rahme, PhD
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  • Hugues Richard, MSc
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  • Louise Pilote, MD, MPH, PhD

Division of Clinical Epidemiology, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Received 11 May 2006; accepted 23 October 2006.

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 Drs Hudson and Pilote are funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr Pilote is a William Dawson Professor of Medicine at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This study was supported in part by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (#ATF 6669).

 Dr Hudson was responsible for the conception of the study. Dr Pilote was responsible for acquisition of the data. Mr Richard was responsible for the data programming. All authors were responsible for the design of the study, data analysis, and interpretation. Dr Hudson was responsible for drafting the manuscript. All other authors were responsible for revising the manuscript critically for important intellectual content. All authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript.

 None of the authors have any conflicts of interests to disclose.

 The funding agency had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the article for publication.

PII: S0002-8703(06)00930-6

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2006.10.018

American Heart Journal
Volume 153, Issue 1 , Pages 59-65, January 2007

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