As emergency physicians, we write prescriptions for patients that we discharge home for all manner of presenting complaints. I used to believe that the overwhelming majority of these prescriptions would be filled by the patient after discharge.
It turns out I was wrong.
Research estimates that patients discharged from emergency departments (EDs) fail to pick up their high urgency prescriptions, like antibiotics, nearly 35 percent of the time.
This is problematic because failure to fill high urgency prescriptions has been shown to lead to systemic waste and high individual morbidity, evidenced by higher infection-related rehospitalizations and all-cause rehospitalizations.
So why the low numbers?
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