You will prepare and submit a term paper on Medication Cost Information in a Computer-Based Patient Record System. Your paper should be a minimum of 2500 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Medication Cost Information in a Computer-Based Patient Record System. Your paper should be a minimum of 2500 words in length. Even with the medical insurance, some medications prove to be more expensive than patients can afford. Due to the severity and importance of the situation, one must examine the possible solutions to this most serious problem. I will examine three articles describing different studies regarding the issue of medication costs, and explain in detail the problem, the way of solution, and the quantitative method used in order to solve the problem. The first article I've chosen is named "Reduction in Prescription Medication Costs after Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass". It relates to specific medical problems caused by obesity, which require certain medication. The final conclusion of the study is the bypass operation can solve the obesity problem and drastically reduce the dosages and number of times the patients have to use medications after the surgery. The aim of the study was to "examine the changes in monthly prescription medication costs in morbidly obese patients who underwent laparoscopic gastric bypass" (Nyugen et al., 2006). The study was carried out under the assumption that the bypass "would have significant improvement or resolution" of the comorbidities obese patients tend to have (such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia and gastroesophageal reflux), and that this will result in a reduction in the dosage of medications patients would use and therefore would save the patients significant costs on medications (Nyugen et al., 2006). The study tested 77 obese patients with at least one of the four comorbidities which were previously described, who underwent the laparoscopic gastric bypass.