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medication adherance
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Boost medication adherence to cut unnecessary visits
With national attention on curbing readmissions, new research from Express Scripts suggests hospitals should focus on improving medication adherence. Researchers found that failure to take medication...
Study: E-prescribing improves medication adherance
Patients are more likely to pick up their prescription drugs when their physicians use e-prescribing to order them. Assuming they then take the drugs they've purchased, this trend should improve
How can docs keep cancer costs from crushing patients?
Lots of exciting news out of the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference grabbed headlines this week, particularly surrounding revolutionary new treatments for lung and skin cancers . While
Experts say pros of paying patients to take medications outweigh the cons
As we reported last month, up to half of all patients fail to take their medications faithfully as prescribed, compromising their health and costing the healthcare system $100 billion in preventable
