Research Highlights Need to Improve Rx Adherence

Chain Drug Review
April 26, 2010

An article that appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine earlier this month is being hailed by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores for helping to drive home the organization’s message that community pharmacists play a key role in helping reduce long-term health care costs...

In the article “Thinking Outside the Pillbox: Medication Adherence as a Priority for Health Care Reform,” Harvard University economics professor David Cutler and Wendy Everett, president of the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI), write that pharmacies’ role in helping patients take medications correctly is key to improving lives and reducing long-term health care costs...

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