ArticlePharmacy Patterns as Predictors of Workers’ Compensation Claim Complexity
… falls, frailty, disability, and mortality, with preventable adverse drug events estimated to account for 5%-28% of acute medical admissions (Varghese et al., 2024) . … . In out-of-network pharmacy channels, topicals represent only 13.9% of prescriptions but account for 40.2% of spending. … Topicals represent only 13.9% of OON prescriptions but account for 40.2% of OON spend, with some formulations costing 10-20 times more than …