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Tracking Down Patients Who Skip Their Drugs

Kaiser Health News
June 29, 2011

For doctors, pharmacists and other health care experts, it’s a bitter pill to swallow: nearly a quarter of people who get a prescription don’t bother to fill it....the New England Healthcare Institute estimates that non-adherence “could result in as much as $290 billion per year in avoidable medical spending or 13 percent of total health care expenditures.”

Link to Full Article: http://capsules.kaiserhealthnews.org/index.php/2011/06/tracking-down-patien…

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