Primary medication non-adherence: analysis of 195,930 electronic prescriptions.

Michael A Fischer; Margaret R Stedman; Joyce Lii; Christine Vogeli; William H Shrank; Alan Brookhart; Joel S Weissman

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Primary medication non-adherence: analysis of 195,930 electronic prescriptions.

February 17, 2010

Fischer MA, Stedman MR, Lii J, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25(4):284-90.

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In this analysis of nearly 200,000 electronic prescriptions, more than 20% were not filled by the patient. This phenomenon, termed primary medication non-adherence, was particularly common for medications for chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension.

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