John Grohol: “Prior authorizations, at least for atypical antipsychotics prescribed to people with schizophrenia, don’t really help cut costs, and could actually hurt people with this disorder (because of increased discontinuation of the ineffective medications).”
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The author of the original blog needs to go back to junior high logic classes.
Cost was not a measured outcome by his description of the study.
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