Encouraging Patient Rx Compliance

Medical Office Today:

Consider that one-third of patients do not fill their first prescription, and of those who do, only 50 percent continue refilling it six months later, according to Andrew M. Peterson, a pharmacist and dean of Mayes College of Healthcare Business and Policy at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. “And often times, patients typically do not tell their physician that they stopped taking their medication until either the next visit or an adverse event occurs.”

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