RESEARCH PROJECTS

BC'S FAIR PHARMACARE EVALUATION PROJECT

Data sets requested

• Medical Services Plan (BC Ministry of Health)
• Consolidation file (Medical Services Plan Premium Registration and Billing) (BC Ministry of Health)
• PharmaCare (BC Ministry of Health)
• Hospital Separations (BC Ministry of Health)
• Home and Community Care (Continuing Care) (BC Ministry of Health)
• Vital Statistics Deaths (BC Vital Statistics Agency)
• Mental Health (BC Ministry of Health)

Publications

Journal articles

Puyat, J.; Hanley, G.; Cunningham, C.; Law, M.; Wong, S.; Sutherland, J.; Morgan, S. "Ethnic disparities in antipsychotic drug use in British Columbia: a cross-sectional retrospective study of linked survey and administrative data." Psychiatric Services (2011)

Morgan, S.; Hanley, G.; Cunningham, C.; Quan, H. "Ethnic differences in the use of prescription drugs in British Columbia: a cross-sectional analysis of linked survey and administrative data." Open Medicine (2011)

Cunningham, C.; Hanley, G.; Morgan, S. "Income inequities in End-of-life Health Care Spending in British Columbia, Canada: a pooled cross-sectional analysis." International Journal for Equity in Health (2011)

Hanley G., S. Morgan, M. Barer, and R. Reid. "The redistributive effect of the move from age-based to income-based prescription drug coverage in British Columbia, Canada". Health Policy (2010) doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.12.005

Leong V.; Morgan, S.; Wong, S.; Hanley, G.; Black, C. "Registration for public drug benefits across areas of differing ethnic composition in British Columbia, Canada." BMC Health Services Research (2010) 10:171doi:10.1186/1472-6963-10-171

Hanley, G. E.; Morgan, S.; Reid, R. J. "Explaining prescription drug use and expenditures using the adjusted clinical groups case-mix system in the population of British Columbia, Canada." Medical care (2010) May 48 5 402-408

Dormuth, C. R.; Neumann, P.; Maclure, M.; Glynn, R. J.; Schneeweiss, S. "Effects of prescription coinsurance and income-based deductibles on net health plan spending for older users of inhaled medications." Medical care (2009) May 47 5 508-516

Hanley G.; Morgan, S. "Chronic Catastrophes: Exploring the concentration and sustained nature of ambulatory prescription drug expenditures in the population of British Columbia, Canada." Social Science and medicine (2009) 68 5 919-924

Hanley G.; Morgan, S.; Hurley, J.; van Doorslaer, E. "Distributional consequences of the transition from age-based to income-based prescription drug coverage in British Columbia, Canada." Health Economics. [Published Online: Jan 11 2008 6:02AM DOI: 10.1002/hec.1337

Wang, P. S.; Patrick, A. R.; Dormuth, C. R.; Avorn, J.; Maclure, M.; Canning, C. F.; Schneeweis , S. "The impact of cost sharing on antidepressant use among older adults in British Columbia." Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) (2008) Apr 59 4 337-383

Hanley G.; Morgan, S. "On the validity of area-based income measures to proxy household income." BMC Health Services Research 8:79 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-79 (2008)

Dormuth, C.R.; Maclure, M.; Glynn, R.J.; Neumann, P.; Brookhart, A.M.; Schneeweiss, S. "Emergency hospital admissions after income-based deductibles and prescription copayments in older users of inhaled medications." Clinical Therapeutics (2008) 30 1038-1050

van Wijk, B. L.; Shrank, W. H.; Klungel, O. H.; Schneeweiss, S.; Brookhart, M. A.; Avorn, J. "A cross-national study of the persistence of antihypertensive medication use in the elderly." Journal of hypertension (2008) Jan 26 1 145-153

Schneeweiss, S.; Patrick, A. R.; Maclure, M.; Dormuth, C. R.; Glynn, R. J. "Adherence to beta-blocker therapy under drug cost-sharing in patients with and without acute myocardial infarction." The American Journal of Managed Care (2007) Aug 13 8 445-452

Raymond, C.B.; Morgan, S. G.; Caetano, P. A. "Antidepressant utilization in British Columbia from 1996 to 2004: increasing prevalence but not incidence." Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) (2007) Jan 58 1 79-84

Schneeweiss, S.; Patrick, A.R.; Maclure, M.; Dormuth, C.R.; Glynn, R.J. "Adherence to statin therapy under drug cost sharing in patients with and without acute myocardial infarction: a population-based natural experiment." Circulation (2007) 115 16 2128-2135

Morgan, S.; Coombes, M. "Income-based drug coverage in British Columbia: Toward an understanding of the policy and policy-making process." Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé (2006) 2 2 92-108

Morgan S.; Evans, B.; Hanley, G.; Caetano, P.; Black, C. "Income-based drug coverage in British Columbia: Implications of findings for future policy reform." Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé (2006) 2 2 115-127

Caetano, P.; Raymond, C.; Morgan, S.; Yan, L. "Income-based drug coverage in British Columbia: Impact on access to medicines." Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé 2 (online exclusive) (2006) 1 16

Morgan, S.; Yan, L. "Income-based drug coverage in British Columbia: Impacts on private and public costs." Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé 2 (2006) (online exclusive) 1 25

Dormuth, C.R.; Glynn, R.J.; Neumann, P.; Maclure, M.; Brookhart, A.M.; Schneeweiss, S. "Impact of two sequential drug cost-sharing policies on the use of inhaled medications in older patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma." Clinical Therapeutics (2006) June 28 6 964-978

Hanley, G.; Morgan, S.; Yan, L. "Income-based drug coverage in British Columbia: Impact on financial equity." Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé 2 (online exclusive) (2006) 1 17

Schneeweiss, S.; Maclure, M.; Dormuth, C.R.; Glynn, R.J.; Canning, C.; Avorn, J. "A therapeutic substitution policy for proton pump inhibitors: Clinical and economic consequences." Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2006) Apr 79 4 379-388

Dormuth, C.R.; Burnett, S.; Schneeweiss, S. "Using policy simulation to predict drug plan expenditure when planning reimbursement changes." Pharmacoeconomics (2005) 23 10 1021-1030

Schneeweiss, S.; Dormuth, C.; Grootendorst, P.; Soumerai, S.B.; Maclure, M. "Net health plan savings from reference pricing for angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in elderly British Columbia residents." Medical care (2004) July 42 7 653-660

Schneeweiss, S.; Soumerai, S.B.; Maclure, M.; Dormuth, C.; Walker, A.M.; Glynn, R.J. "Clinical and economic consequences of reference pricing for dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers". Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2003) Oct 74 4 388-400

Conference presentations

Morgan, S.; Kawasumi, Y.; Cunningham, C; Hanley, G.; So, L.; Law, M. "The effects of individual and area-level ethnicity on the use of prescription drugs." Academy Health 2011 Annual Research Meeting, Seattle, June 2011

Hanley, G.; Morgan, S.; Reid, R.; Barer, M. "Income-related inequity in drug treatment following acute myocardial infarction in British Columbia, Canada." Academy Health 2011 Annual Research Meeting, Seattle, June 2011

Puyat, J.; Morgan,S.; Hanley, G.; Cunningham, C.; Law, M.; Sabrina, Sutherland, J. "Ethnic disparities in antipsychotic drug use in British Columbia: a cross-section retrospective study of linked survey and administrative data." Annual CAHSPR Conference, Halifax, May 2011

Hanley, G; Morgan,S.; Reid, R.; Barer, M. "Income-related inequity in drug treatment following acute myocardial infarction." Annual CAHSPR Conference, Halifax, May 2011

Kawasumi, Y.; Hanley, G.; Cunningham, C.; Law, M.; Morgan,S. "Ethnic variation in the quality of asthma management in British Columbia." Annual CAHSPR Conference, Halifax, May 2011

Cunningham, C; Hanley, G.; Morgan, S. "Income inequities in end-of-life health care spending in British Columbia." Annual CAHSPR Conference, Halifax, May 2011

Hanley, G.; Morgan, S.; Reid, R; Barer, M. "Income-related inequity in drug treatment following acute myocardial infarction in British Columbia, Canada." CAPT Annual Conference 2011, Ottawa, April 2011

Morgan, S.; Hanley, G.; Cunningham, C.; Quan, H. "Ethnic disparities in prescription drug use: evidence from British Columbia." CAPT Annual Conference 2010, Toronto, March 2010

Morgan, S.; Hanley, G. "Chronic Catastrophes: Persistent Prescription Drug Expenditure for Residents of British Columbia". Annual Research Meeting of Academy Health, Washington, 2008

Hanley, G.; Morgan, S.; Hurley, J.; van Doorslaer, E. "Assessing vertical equity in pharmaceutical financing under income-based prescription drug coverage in British Columbia." Annual CAHSPR Conference, Gatineau, May 2008

Hanley G.; Leong, V.; Morgan, S. "Assessing horizontal equity in pharmaceutical financing under income-based prescription drug coverage in British Columbia." Annual CAHSPR Conference, Gatineau, May 2008

Leong, V. W .; Morgan, S.; Wong, S.; Black, C. "PharmaCare for All? The Impact of Culture on Access to Public Pharmaceutical Insurance in BC." Annual CAHSPR Conference, Gatineau, May 2008

Hanley, G.; Morgan, S. "A chronic catastrophe: The implications of persistently high pharmaceutical expenditures among a Canadian population." Annual CAHSPR Conference, Toronto, June 2007

Hanley, G.; Morgan,S.; Hurley, J.; van Doorslaer, E. "Distributional consequences of the transition from age-based to income-based prescription drug coverage in British Columbia, Canada." Annual CAHSPR Conference, Toronto, June 2007.

Caetano, P.; Raymond, C.; Morgan, S. "Income-based drug coverage in British Columbia: Impact on access to medicines." Third Annual Canadian Joint Therapeutics Congress, Toronto, May 2006

Morgan, S.; Coombes, M.; Yan,L.; Caetano, P.; Raymond, C.; Hanley, G.; Evans, R.; Black, C. "Income-based drug coverage in British Columbia: Implications for Canada’s National Pharmaceuticals Strategy." 2006 Annual CAHSPR Conference, Vancouver, September 2006

Morgan, S.; Hanley, G. "The equity impact of income-based pharmacare." Health Services Restructuring: New Evidence and New Directions, conference sponsored by the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, the School of Policy Studies, and the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Kingston, Ontario, November 2005

Morgan, S.; Evans, B.; Barer, M.; Bassett, K.; Black, C.; Hurley, J. "Income-based drug coverage: Impact on costs, access, and equity." Second conference of the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research, Montreal, September 2005.

Conference abstracts

Dormuth, C.R.; Burnett, S.; Schneeweiss, S. "Accurate and rapid prediction of drug plan expenditure while planning reimbursement changes using policy simulation." Value in Health (2005) May-June 8 3 376

Presentations

Morgan, S. "Financing mechanisms for prescription drugs." Invitational Symposium on Healthcare Renewal in Canada, hosted by the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, the Nova Scotia Department of Health, and CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, Halifax, October 2010

Morgan, S. "The use of data for pharmaceutical policy research." Keynote Speech, (2008) Data Users Conference, hosted by the Canadian Institute for Health Information and Statistics Canada, Ottawa, September 2008

Morgan, S. "Equity in access to medicines in Canada: Diagnoses and prescriptions. How soon is now?" Health Care for Every Generation, Conference hosted by the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, Moncton, August 2007

Morgan, S. "Costs, access, and equity under income-based pharmacare." Policy Rounds Forum, BC Ministry of Health, Victoria, September 2006

Reports

Morgan, S.G.; Schaub, P.; Mooney, D. et al. "The British Columbia Rx Atlas. Vancouver." UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) (2005)

Msc Theses

Leong, V. W. "The impact of area-based cultural characteristics on particpation with the fair pharmacare program in BC." (2008)

Raymond, Colette. "Statin utilization in British Columbia." Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba (2006)

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