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What is Boost with Benefiber?

Boost is a nutritional supplement used to help maintain adequate nutrition, along with supplemental vitamins and fibre. Boost is a brand name owned by Novartis.

Reasons taken & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons taken # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
General health 2 0

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Dosages

  daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Boost with Benefiber (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Personal research
1 50% Personal research: 50%
Other
1 50% Other: 50%

See all 2 patients who’ve stopped taking Boost with Benefiber

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Stopped Taking Boost with Benefiber

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
1
0
1

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
0 0%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
0 0%

Report created on November 22, 2009.