Recent trends in the use of antidiabetic medications from 2008 to 2013: A nation-wide population-based study from Taiwan 2008至2013年糖尿病药品的处方型态分析:代表台湾族群的全国性研究

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• 作者：Huang-Tz Ou ; Kai-Cheng Chang ; Ya-Ming Liu and Jin-Shang Wu
• 刊名：Journal of Diabetes
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：9
• 期：3
• 页码：256-266
• 全文大小：4056K
• ISSN：1753-0407

文摘

Studies from other countries indicate that utilization patterns of antidiabetic drugs change significantly after the introduction of newer classes of antidiabetic drugs (e.g. dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors [DPP-4i]). Evidence on recent trends regarding antidiabetic drug use in Taiwan is lacking, especially for times after the introduction of newer classes of drugs (e.g. DPP-4i). Therefore, the aim of the present study was to assess: (i) recent trends in the use and spending on antidiabetic drugs; (ii) changes in utilization patterns after introduction of newer classes of antidiabetic drugs; and (iii) factors associated with the choice of newer versus older classes of antidiabetic drugs.