Pain Free, Needleless Injection Systems Will Reduce Patient Non-compliance

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According to a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, many Americans are failing to comply with medication prescriptions for a variety of reasons. Non Compliance refers to patients who either don't take their medication or who do not take the prescribed dosage or take the medication improperly. While there are many reasons why a patient might not to take their medication properly, pain and fear of needles are one of the leading causes for diabetics and other patients who are prescribed injectable drugs.

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1357338

The cost of patient non-compliance is staggering, costing anywhere between $100 billion to $289 billion a year because of additional procedures, wasted medication, or additional care that is needed because they did not take their medication. It is estimated that 20-30 percent of all prescriptions for medication are never filled and up to 50 percent of medications aren't taken as prescribed. Failure to follow proper dosing or failure to take prescriptions has been linked to nearly 125,000 deaths per year and up to 10 percent of all hospitalizations. ...
... Consider that this doesn't even include the positive impact on quality of life that would have been achieved had the patients simply taken their medication as prescribed.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/409940

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/09/the-289-billion-cost-of-medication-noncompliance-and-what-to-do-about-it/262222/

In the case of injectable drugs, most patients reported that they were non compliant for two reasons.
1. They find injections to be painful and do not like the bumps and bruises.
2. They are afraid of needles.

What if we could eliminate the pain and bruising associated with injections?
What if we could eliminate the fear of needles by eliminating the needle?

Most of the patients we observed, several of which were young children who were afraid of needles seemed fascinated by the needleless injection system. Once they realized that it didn't hurt or leave a bruise they lost their fear of having an injection. Needleless injection systems are a great solution if you concerned about patient compliance for injectable drugs.

Eternity Healthcare, Inc. offers a pain free, needleless injection system.

http://eternityhealthcare.com/healthcare-products

The units are cost effective, with a complete starter kit costing approximately $250.00. Additional nozzles/syringes cost $25.00 for a box of 25. While the cost per unit is somewhat more expensive than a typical syringe, it will greatly reduce the cost of patient non-compliance both in terms of physical cost from reducing the number of additional procedures and in human terms with patients experiencing the benefits the care they were prescribed.

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