Many patients who are prescribed medications fail to take them appropriately—or at all—and addressing this problem could lead to significant cost savings and better care management, according to a new ...

Utilization of an Outpatient Integrated Infusion Suite to Decrease Length of Stay, Increase Revenue, and Improve Patient Experience for Elective Chemotherapy Admissions This retrospective cohort study ...

Cost is a major determining factor for patients deciding whether to pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy. When medications are too expensive, patients tend to abandon them regardless of how ...

Modest increases in adherence to medication regimens among Medicare patients with heart failure were associated with lower Medicare spending in 3 major drug classes. Pooled cross-sectional design ...

Medication non-adherence is a major societal problem with serious clinical and economic consequences, associated with 200,000 deaths and 125 billion euros of costs annually in Europe. Studies show ...

Online prescription management accounts may help promote medication adherence, as utilizing patients had a higher proportion of days covered than nonusers. A retrospective analysis was conducted using ...

In an advance that could help ensure people are taking their medication on schedule, MIT engineers have designed a pill that ...

Patients with hypertension and uncontrolled blood pressure (BP) who showed improved medication adherence and received intensified treatment had the highest probability of achieving controlled BP.

In 2017, an expert commission organized by the Lancet examined the current state of asthma care. That commission identified poor medication adherence as one of the principal barriers standing between ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . High heart failure hospitalization and mortality rates could be due in part to poor medication adherence. A ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new study highlights age-specific differences in adherence to asthma and COPD medications, with the lowest ...