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There's good evidence to show that particularly with
medication adherence, there are: a. decline in health status; b. increase in disease complications; c. relapse in case of alcoholism or depression, where we have recurring disease; d. an extensive amount of unnecessary hospitalizations. The rate currently for the elderly population suggests somewhere between 9-14% of hospitalizations of older adults are actually due to mismanagement of the pharmacologic component of their treatment regimen; e. a significant amount of loss of transplanted organs. In fact 20-25% of organ rejections have been associated with poor compliance with medications that patients are on to suppress the immune system; f. disease resistant organisms, particularly in infectious disease areas like HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and infections among children; g. death. |