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SUPPLEMENTAL DOCUMENT 1. SAS code to calculate the proportion of days covered among Medicare Part D beneficiaries using data within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.
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September 16, 2016
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 65(35):1–10.
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Series: CDC Vital signs ; 2016 September
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Description:Version: 1.0
Developed by: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP), CDC
Date: August 2016
Description: This code was developed by DHDSP analysts using SAS Version 9.3 (SAS Institute Inc, Cary, North Carolina) to describe nonadherence to antihypertensive medication among Medicare Part D beneficiaries in 2014 using the proportion of days covered (PDC) methodology.* The methods used and findings were reported in CDC’s September 2016 Vital Signs MMWR report (Ritchey M, et al. Disparities in antihypertensive medication nonadherence among Medicare Part D beneficiaries. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2016;65(35). The analysts applied this code within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) on data elements in the CMS Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (CCW).
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