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Compliance with medications lowers health care costs
10-23-2006 · EurekAlert!Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who take medications as directed incur 12.5 percent lower medical costs than those who do not report University of Chicago researchers. A second study, however, suggests that there is no simple way to improve compliance.
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