Today I came across this press release of a study's results and thought it really spoke to what we discussed in class regarding health literacy: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/hl_nm/medication_errors_dc;_ylt=ApkOZcRNhaQQnmWZjTxbuT8Q.3QA
I also read a meta-analysis for another class about non-compliance rates in patients, linking them to some demographic information, type of treatment, type of disease for which the treatment was prescribed, and method of assessing compliance. It revealed an average non-compliance rate of around 25% across the board, with highly varying rates depending largely on the factors listed above. Not surprisingly, people were more compliant with medications for short-term problems than chronic conditions and with medication treatments than behavioral changes (e.g., exercise, diet). Anyway, funny how these things came up in my life when we were studying them in this class!
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