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| Title |
Non-adherence to drug therapy and drug acquisition costs in a national population - a patient-based register study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, November 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-11-326 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Bo Hovstadius, Göran Petersson |
| Abstract |
Patients' non-adherence to drug therapy is a major problem for society as it is associated with reduced health outcomes. Generally, approximately only 50% of patients with chronic disease in developed countries adhere to prescribed therapy, and the most common non-adherence refers to chronic under-use, i.e. patients use less medication than prescribed or prematurely stop the therapy. Patients' non-adherence leads to high additional costs for society in terms of poor health. Non-adherence is also related to the unnecessary sale of drugs. The aim of the present study was to estimate the drug acquisition cost related to non-adherence to drug therapy in a national population. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 2 | 40% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| Italy | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 80% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 112 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 108 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 22 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 15% |
| Researcher | 16 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 17 | 15% |
| Unknown | 23 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 31 | 28% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 12 | 11% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 10 | 9% |
| Psychology | 8 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 17 | 15% |
| Unknown | 29 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 December 2014.
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#1,984,515
of 22,659,164 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#762
of 7,572 outputs
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#15,182
of 240,319 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#7
of 87 outputs
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