Help Improve Patient Compliance
Promoted by numerous insurance companies today as a way of controlling costs, pill splitting encourages self-medication, which can negatively impact patient health. This practice can also mean millions in lost revenue.
To help avoid these potential negative impacts, many companies are now considering formulating new drugs (especially those for chronic therapies) into capsules.
Capsules offer the following benefits for these companies:
- Cannot be split; avoiding self-medication
- Easier to formulate than tablets
- Filling equipment already in place
- Easier to swallow than tablets; tasteless and odorless
- Ability to achieve more distinctive, deeper and more richer colored dosage forms that help improve compliance among elderly
- Can be easily imprinted with identifying information
In addition to pill-splitting, medication errors are often the result of patients confusing drugs that look alike – particularly among elderly patients that may have poor eye sight. To help prevent medication errors, it is critical that the dosage form have a unique color, shape or imprint that is different from other drugs that are often taken in combination with it for a particular disease state. To learn more about custom color combinations and imprints, visit the Capsule Color Selection Tool.
To learn more about preventing medication errors and medication error statistics, view the articles listed below.
Use this convenient Tablet Splitting Calculator to help you estimate the financial impact of tablet splitting on the sales of your developmental drug.
The following articles/studies on patient compliance may be viewed from the Capsugel Library:
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