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A recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that 50% of patients with chronic disease do not take their medication as prescribed. Poor medication adherence leads to increasingly poor health outcomes for patients and has a significant negative economic impact on healthcare resources. Readily-available communications technology can provide real-time information and feedback to patients, to support improved medication adherence.
This trial will evaluate the effect of communications technology, providing real-time information to patients, on adherence to medication. The aims of the trial are to increase drug adherence, to create and use a novel and automated feedback loop and to demonstrate patient satisfaction with this service.
The aim of this trial is to assess the effect of text-message reminders delivered via cell phone on adherence to sunscreen application.
Stan says that the orb that serves to remind him to take his blood pressure medication is also working to get his family members more involved and aware of his medical care.
Nonadherence with prescribed drug regimens is a pervasive medical problem. Multiple variables affecting physicians and patients contribute to nonadherence, which negatively affects treatment outcomes. In patients with hypertension, medication nonadherence is a significant, often unrecognized, risk factor that contributes to poor blood pressure control.
The authors describe a study that tests 3 different interventions in a randomized controlled trial using home BP telemedicine monitoring.
The aim of this study was to assess the impact of telemonitoring of medication adherence on symptomatology and service use in patients with schizophrenia.
The authors updated a review summarizing the results of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions to help patients follow prescriptions for medications for medical problems, including mental disorders but not addictions.
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) convened a roundtable discussion on patient adherence programs.
This report is part of the work of the Adherence to Long-term Therapies Project, a global initiative launched in 2001 by the Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Cluster of the World Health Organization.
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