Cash rewards keep people on their medications

Natasja Sheriff
Reuters
August 3, 2012

Weekly rewards of as little as $5 could keep people on track with their medications, says a new study.

“It helps the patient understand that we are serious about helping them get treated,” said Dr. Deb Sodt, who leads the Minnesota Department of Health Tuberculosis Prevention & Control Program and was not involved in the new work.

Recent studies suggest that fewer than half of people don’t follow doctors’ medication orders, even for life-threatening conditions. Around 130,000 people die each year in the United States because they don’t take their medication to prevent heart disease, for example. (See Reuters Health story of July 25, 2012:.)

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This article was posted: Friday, August 3, 2012 at 9:27 am

Tags: healthcare, pharmaceutical

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