A Prescription for Better Medication Adherence

The Boston Globe
April 7, 2010

Patients don't always take their medicine, even if it's free. That stubborn fact has been tied to 89,000 premature deaths and more than $100 billion a year in avoidable hospitalizations, researchers estimate....

The reasons why people don't follow their medication regimens are less clear, making it hard to come up with solutions. In a commentary published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine, David Cutler of Harvard University and Wendy Everett of the New England Healthcare Institute offer their ideas on improving adherence to medication regimens.

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