Reminder Packaging Helps Patients Take Medications as Directed

Health Behavior News Service
September 13, 2011

People with chronic illnesses are more likely to take long-term medications according to doctors’ instructions if the packaging includes a reminder system, according to a new review of evidence...

“This issue has been rising up the radar screen, because of increasing concern about chronic disease in this country,” said Tom Hubbard, a senior program director at NEHI, an independent health policy institute in Cambridge, Mass. “Unless ways are found to correct poor adherence, it will frustrate efforts to get better outcomes at lower costs.”...

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