NEW YORK Reuters Health - Many people whose doctors start them on medications for conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure may never fill those prescriptions, a new study suggests. Stickers to be placed on prescription medication bottles sit in a shelf at a pharmacy in New York December 23, Researchers found that among more than 75, Massachusetts patients given drug prescriptions over one year, 22 percent of the prescriptions were never filled.
The rate was even higher -- 28 percent -- when the researchers looked only at first-time prescriptions. Between 28 percent and 31 percent of new prescriptions for diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, for example, went unfilled, according to findings published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Exactly why many patients did not fill their prescriptions is unclear. The retail drug store industry employs many different types of workers.
Each store has a manager, along with department managers or assistant managers to handle additional administrative duties. Sales associates are generally entry-level retail workers. Pharmacists require a specialized degree and licensing to dispense medication. Loading statistic Show source. Download for free You need to log in to download this statistic Register for free Already a member? Log in. Show detailed source information?
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Profit from additional features by authenticating your Admin account. Then you will be able to mark statistics as favourites and use personal statistics alerts. Please log in to access our additional functions. Yes, let me download! Dispensing rates for opioids vary widely across different states and counties. Emerging hotspot areas are identified by the darker colors on the maps. County Opioid Dispensing Rate Maps. State Opioid Dispensing Rate Maps. Table 1. Total number and rate of opioid prescriptions dispensed, United States, — Total number and rate of opioid prescriptions dispensed, United States, — Year Total Number of Prescriptions Opioid Dispensing Rate Per Persons ,, For this database, a prescription is a new or refill prescription dispensed at a retail pharmacy in the sample and paid for by commercial insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, cash or its equivalent, and other third-party coverage.
This database does not include mail order prescriptions. For the calculation of dispensing rates, numerators are the projected total number of opioid prescriptions dispensed annually at the state, county, or national level. Annual resident population denominators were obtained from the U. Census Bureau. Opioid prescriptions, including buprenorphine, codeine, fentanyl, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, methadone, morphine, oxycodone, oxymorphone, propoxyphene, tapentadol, and tramadol, were identified using National Drug Codes.
Cough and cold formulations containing opioids and buprenorphine products typically used to treat opioid use disorder were not included.
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