Study urges action to get patients to follow prescriptions
The Boston Globe
August 14, 2009
Patients who do not take their medications as prescribed pay a price in poorer health, more frequent hospitalizations, and a higher risk of death. Collectively, they also incur up to $290 billion annually in increased medical costs, according to a Boston-based health policy group that urges making the issue part of the national debate on overhauling health care.
From one-third to one-half of patients in the United States do not take their medications as their doctors intend them to, according to a report released this week by the New England Healthcare Institute. Some do not pick up or renew prescriptions, some do not take their medicine in the proper doses or at the right times, and others stop taking them altogether, the report says...
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