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Journal Article
Thinking Outside the Pillbox — Medication Adherence as a Priority for Health Care Reform
2010
Overview
As many as half of all patients do not adhere faithfully to their prescription-medication requirements, and the result is more than $100 billion spent each year on avoidable hospitalizations. David Cutler and Wendy Everett discuss how to improve medication adherence.
Poor adherence to treatment regimens has long been recognized as a substantial roadblock to achieving better outcomes for patients. Data show that as many as half of all patients do not adhere faithfully to their prescription-medication regimens — and the result is more than $100 billion spent each year on avoidable hospitalizations.
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Nonadherence to medication regimens also affects the quality and length of life; for example, it has been estimated that better adherence to antihypertensive treatment alone could prevent 89,000 premature deaths in the United States annually.
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What is less clear is why adherence to the 3.8 billion prescriptions written . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
