Medication Mgmt – Healthy Skeptic

Apr 15 2011

New York Times

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The number of people treated in hospitals in the United States for problems related to medication errors has surged more than 50 percent in recent years.

Mar 15 2011

Los Angeles Times

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New ideas to help people take medications correctly

Dec 21 2010

PR News

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Riverside Partners announced that it has made a majority equity investment in Dominion Diagnostics, a leading laboratory services company focused on quantitative testing to support patient medication monitoring.

Sep 16 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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For the millions of adults who don’t regularly take their medicine as prescribed by their doctors, insurers and others in the healthcare industry are trying to figure out what incentives may improve medication adherence

Apr 08 2010

ideaworks

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Studies have found, for example, that patients with chronic diseases normally take only about half their prescribed medications and that 10 percent of hospital admissions result from patients not following the guidelines on their prescriptions

Apr 08 2010

NEJM

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One recent study showed that even among patientswho have health plans with no cost sharing for medications,rates of non-adherence were nearly 40%

Feb 18 2010

Reuters

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Many people whose doctors start them on medications for conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure may never fill those prescriptions, a new study suggests.