Health care resource utilization and costs of California‐Medicaid patients with schizophrenia treated with paliperidone palmitate once monthly or atypical oral antipsychotic treatment

Abstract Authors: Pesa JA, Doshi D, Wang L, Yuce H, Baser O. Objective: To compare all-cause health care utilization and costs between patients with schizophrenia treated with once monthly paliperidone palmitate (PP1M; Invega Sustenna) and atypical oral antipsychotic...

Risk of stroke/systemic embolism, major bleeding and associated costs in non‐valvular atrial fibrillation patients who initiated apixaban, dabigatran, or rivaroxaban compared with warfarin in the US Medicare population

Abstract Objective: To compare the risk and cost of stroke/systemic embolism (SE) and major bleeding between each direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) and warfarin among non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) patients. Methods: Patients (≥65 years) initiating warfarin or...