Patient mistakes lead to 20% of nursing home admissions.Twenty percent of nursing home and hospital admissions each year are the result of patient non-compliance when it comes to taking medicine or following proper therapy methods, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new report from Cutting Edge Information in Research Triangle Park Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C. According to "Pharmaceutical Patient Compliance and Disease Management," more than 125,000 people die each year due to patient non-compliance. The non-compliance is believed to be due mostly to a breakdown in communication between physicians and their patients, according to Cutting Edge Information Senior Analyst Eric Bolesh. The study also reported that 70 percent of all medical prescriptions A medical prescription (℞) is an order (often in written form) by a qualified health care professional to a pharmacist or other therapist for a treatment to be provided to their patient. go unconsumed each year, resulting in $77 billion in excess healthcare costs. In addition, 40 percent of patients who receive outpatient drug therapy will experience a treatment failure or new medical problem due to improper
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