Primary nonadherence to drugs prescribed by general practitioners: A Dutch database study.
M Mirjam HempeniusSimone RijkenRolf H H GroenwoldKarin HekAnthonius de BoerOlaf H KlungelHelga GardarsdottirPublished in: British journal of clinical pharmacology (2022)
A total of 11.5% of newly prescribed drugs were not dispensed. This can lead to overestimation of the actual drug exposure status when using written prescription databases.