RESEARCH PROJECTS

POPULATION-BASED PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT: THE DETERMINANTS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG UTILIZATION AND EXPENDITURES

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

Morgan, S.; Bassett, K.; Barer, M.; Evans, R.; Wright, J.; Black, C. (2005) "Are breakthough drugs driving pharmaceutical expenditures? Evidence from Canada." British Medical Journal 331(7520); 815-816

Morgan, S.G. (2005) "Booming prescription drug expenditure: A population-based analysis of age dynamics." Medical Care 43(10): 996-1008

Mintzes, B.; Morgan, S.; Bassett, K. (2005) "Medicine by media: Did a critical television documentary affect prescribing of cyprotone-estradiol (Diance-35)?" Canadian Medical Assocation Journal 173(11): 1313-1315

Morgan, S.G. (2006) "Prescription drug expenditures and population demographics." Health Services Research 41(2): 411-428

Raymond, C.; Caetano, P.; Morgan, S. (2007) "Antidepressant utilization in British Columbia." Psychiatric Services 58(1): 79-84

Raymond, C.; Morgan, S.; Katz, A.; Kozyrskyj, A. (2007) "A populatioin-based analysis of statin utilization in British Columbia." Clinical Therapeutics 29(9): 2107-19

Morgan, S.G.; Barer, M.L.; Agnew, "Seniors’ prescription drug cost inflation and cost containment: Evidence from British Columbia." Health Policy (2004) 68 3 299-307

Reports

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

Conference presentations

Morgan, S. "Drug expenditures in Canada: A population-based analysis of trends and causes." Annual Research Meeting of Academy Health, San Diego, June 2004

Presentations

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. "Pharmaceutical cost crisis: causes, consequences, cures." 2007 Labelle Lecture McMaster University, Hamilton, October 2007

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. "Data for analysing pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical policy." Data Users’ Conference 2006, hosted by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and Statistics Canada, Vancouver, September 2006

Morgan, S. "Implications of population aging on pharmaceutical policy for BC." Premier's Council on Aging and Seniors' Issues, Vancouver, March 2006

Morgan, S. "Expenditure overdose: the causes and consequences of rising prescription drug expenditures." Annual General Meeting, Friends of Medicare, Calgary, June 2005

Morgan, S. "Measuring ‘quality,’ ‘accessibility.’ and ‘sustainability’ – Are drugs part of the problem or part of the solution?” Tools For Advancing Pharmaceuticals Management." Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment; Canadian Institute for Health Information; Health Canada, Therapeutic Products Directorate; and the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, Ottawa, November 2004

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