title: Pharmaceutical counseling and medication adherence monitoring: an essential component of any drug benefit program.
abstract: Prescription drugs are an essential component of any health benefit. This is hardly a controversial statement, yet it is only relatively recently that prescription drugs have been included as part of the benefits package available to most Americans. The United States has lagged behind most other industrialized countries in providing a drug benefit, and such a benefit is still lacking for one of the most needy segment of our society--the elderly.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, School of Pharmacy, Seattle, USA.
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Christensen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003376:Counseling; D016903:Drug Monitoring / Q000592:standards; D004512:Education, Pharmacy; D006801:Humans; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services / Q000592:standards*; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010605:Pharmacy Administration / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States