For the patient, being compliant makes
sense:
- Compliance with a medication regime is considered to be one of
the major contributors to sustainable treatment outcomes.
- According to a recent study by Medco Health Solutions, a non-compliant
patient with, for example, diabetes or high cholesterol, is twice
as likely to be hospitalized than a compliant patient.
- Healthcare costs, which are increasingly funded by the patients
themselves, are approximately double for a non-compliant patient
according to the same Medco Health Solutions study.
For society, medication compliance is a good value proposition:
- More than 125,000 people in the US alone die each year due to
prescription medication non compliance
- According to the expert opinions more than 10% of hospitalizations
are due to non-compliance
- Absenteeism and attendance loss at the workplace contributes
to lost productivity
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| So, why
do patients not take
their medication
as they should?
- Forgetfulness
- Difficult regimen
- Too many medications
- Inconvenient dosing
- Side effects
- Ran out of medication
- Dietary reasons
- Confused about instructions
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