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Medication Errors are Common and Costly

Seniors rely on their medications to keep them healthy, but complex medication schedules can lead to mistakes: missing doses, taking incorrect amounts, or taking medicines at the wrong times. These mistakes could lead to unnecessary doctor or hospital visits, illness and even death.

  • For seniors, approximately 1 out of 10 hospital admissions are the result of the incorrect use of medications.*

  • Not taking medications correctly can have serious consequences, including increased discomfort, inadequate disease prevention and possibly even death.**

 

Helpful Service As Low As $49 Per Month

Patients who follow the directions of their doctors and pharmacists by taking their medications in the prescribed amounts at the right times can reduce the health risks associated with medication errors. In the area of dispensing adherence, the Philips Medication Dispensing Service shines with a dispensing adherence rate among monitored subscribers of 98.6 percent.***

Experience the benefits of the Philips Medication Dispensing Service for yourself, starting as low as $49 per month.

 

 

* C. Nananda, J.P. Fanale, P. Kronholm, ”The Role of Medication Non-Compliance and Adverse Drug Reactions in the Elderly,” Archives of Internal Medicine, 150 (1990): 841 – 845

** Durso, S.C., M.D., “Technological Advances for Improving Adherence in the Ederly,” Annals of Long Term Care, 9 (4), (2001): 43 – 48

***98.6% dispensing adherence was derived from PMD online database activity and monitored unity activity having been calculated by number of scheduled doses/number of dispenses. Among subscribers who enrolled in the optional 24-hour monitoring service, subscribers dispensed their medications when prompted 98.6% of the time.



 

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