Thinking Outside the Pillbox — Medication Adherence as a Priority for Health Care Reform
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- 29 April 2010
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 362 (17) , 1553-1555
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1002305
Abstract
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.1 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.2Keywords
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