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What happens when patients don’t follow doctors’ orders?
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Air date: November 18, 2012
Host: Kathy Miller, MD
Interview: Walid Gellad, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Medicine, assistant professor of health policy and management, U of Pittsburgh; associate scientist at RAND Corporation.
Primary Care segments are presentedby IU Health Physicians.
Studies show that when patients don’t take their medications as prescribed, their conditions and the cost of health care rise precipitously. Walid Gellad, M.D., MPH, assistant professor of health policy and management and the University of Pittsburgh and associate scientist at RAND Corporation, talks about incentives to encourage patients to take their medications.
Additional Resources:
- Learn more about the problem of medication nonadherence here.
