Non-adherence study finds patients not filling Rx's even among patients that have serious health conditions

Feb/17/2010 10:18

If the US is to address its ever increasing health costs than efforts have to be made to ensure patients fill prescriptions. Researchers found that among more than 75,000 Massachusetts patients given drug prescriptions over one year, 22 percent of the prescriptions were never filled. The rate was even higher -- 28 percent -- when the researchers looked only at first-time prescriptions. Read More...

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If we are to cut health care costs than patient compliance programs have to get a lot better

Jan/11/2010 04:51

Encouraging more patients to continue taking their prescribed cholesterol drugs would stave off twice as many stroke and heart attack deaths as giving the drugs to a wider range of people, scientists said on Tuesday.
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