Investigators at Duke University Describe Findings in Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy (Racial and Social Inequities In Medication Use: a Review of Articles Responding To The <i> Journal of Managed Care Plus Specialty Pharmacy’s </i>call To …): Drugs and Therapies – Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy

2024 AUG 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Drugs and Therapies - Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy have been published. According to news originating from Durham, North Carolina, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This article provides a summary of Viewpoint and Research articles responding to the 2020 Journal of Managed Care + Specialty Pharmacy Call to Action to address racial and social inequities in medication use. We find great heterogeneity in terms of topic, clinical condition examined, and health disparity addressed.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Duke University, “Common recommendations across Viewpoint articles include the need to increase racial and ethnic diversity in clinical trial participants, the need to address drug affordability and health insurance literacy, and the need to incentivize providers and plans to participate in diversity initiatives, such as the better capture of information on social determinants of health (SDOH) in claims data to be able to address SDOH needs. Across research articles, we also find a large range of approaches and study designs, spanning from randomized controlled trials to surveys to observational studies. These articles identify disparities in which minoritized beneficiaries are shown to be less likely to receive medications and vaccines, as well as less likely to be adherent to medications, across a variety of conditions.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Finally, we discuss Healthy People 2030 as a potential framework for future health disparity researchers.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Racial and Social Inequities In Medication Use: a Review of Articles Responding To The Journal of Managed Care Plus Specialty Pharmacy’s call To Action. Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy, 2024;30(7):736-746. Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy can be contacted at: Acad Managed Care Pharmacy, 100 N Pitt St, 400, Alexandria, VA 22314-3134, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Anna Hung, Duke University, School of Medicine, Dept. of Population Health Sciences, Durham, NC 27708, United States. Additional authors for this research include Lixian Zhong and Prabashni Reddy.

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