New Score Predicts Whether You Will Really Take Your Medication

FOXBusiness
August 22, 2011

It’s safe to say that at some point in our lives, we’ve cut short a 10-day dosage of antibiotics or maybe even taken the wrong dosage at the wrong time. Most of the time this misstep isn’t a big problem, but sometimes it causes an infection to recur forcing another doctor visit to and a refill of the script...

When this happens, patients run a risk of poor health outcomes and more frequent hospitalizations, costing both patients and the health-care system a lot of money. According to a November 2010 report from the New England Healthcare Institute, this computes to about $290 billion annually--about 13%--of the total U.S. health care spending...

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