Chapel Hill: Adewole S. Adamson, MD, assistant professor of dermatology at the UNC School of Medicine, found that patients given electronic prescriptions were more likely to pick up and fill their dermatological prescriptions than those patients who were given a traditional, written prescription. A UNC School of Medicine dermatologist recently conducted a study to
determine if the way a prescription was written – either traditionally
or electronically – played a role in whether a patient filled and picked
up the medication. In the study,
published today in
JAMA Dermatology,
Adewole S. Adamson, MD,
assistant professor of dermatology, found that the way a prescription
was written could influence whether a patient filled the prescription.
