CDC Grand Rounds: Improving medication adherence for chronic disease management — Innovations and opportunities

Autor: Todd M. Ruppar, Yuling Hong, Larry Garber, Mary G. George, Michael Ho, Andrea Neiman, Phoebe Thorpe, Paul J. Weidle
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science)
Prescription Drugs
Epidemiology
Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis
MEDLINE
Medication adherence
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Health outcomes
Medication Adherence
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Health Information Management
Health care
Humans
Immunology and Allergy
Medicine
Pharmacology (medical)
030212 general & internal medicine
Teaching Rounds
Disease management (health)
Medical prescription
Prescribed medications
Transplantation
business.industry
Grand Rounds
Public health
Disease Management
General Medicine
United States
Treatment Outcome
Chronic disease
Family medicine
Chronic Disease
Emergency medicine
Education
Medical
Continuing
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S
Diffusion of Innovation
business
Zdroj: MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
ISSN: 1600-6135
Popis: Adherence to prescribed medications is associated with improved clinical outcomes for chronic disease management and reduced mortality from chronic conditions (1). Conversely, nonadherence is associated with higher rates of hospital admissions, suboptimal health outcomes, increased morbidity and mortality, and increased health care costs (2). In the United States, 3.8 billion prescriptions are written annually (3). Approximately one in five new prescriptions are never filled, and among those filled, approximately 50% are taken incorrectly, particularly with regard to timing, dosage, frequency, and duration (4). Whereas rates of nonadherence across the United States have remained relatively stable, direct health care costs associated with nonadherence have grown to approximately $100-$300 billion of U.S. health care dollars spent annually (5,6). Improving medication adherence is a public health priority and could reduce the economic and health burdens of many diseases and chronic conditions (7).
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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