Category list : Adherence compliance and concordance
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Single-pill combination for hypertension linked with improved clinical outcomes and adherence, study finds
Single-pill fixed-dose combination treatment for hypertension improves medication adherence and is linked with a significantly lower risk of heart attack, heart failure or stroke, a study has found.
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Medication-related harm in older adults costs the NHS £400m each year, study finds Subscription
Medication-related harm affects one in three older adults and incurs an annual cost of around £400m to the NHS, most of which is attributable to hospital readmissions, a study has found.
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Confidence in statins key to adherence, say researchers Subscription
Confidence in the efficacy of statins to minimise the risk of life-threatening cardiovascular disease facilitates their uptake.
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Adherence app ‘has no impact on blood pressure control’ Subscription
A medication reminder app improved adherence but did not lead to improved blood pressure control in people with uncontrolled hypertension, a study has found.
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Nocebo: the placebo effect’s evil twin Subscription
The little-known nocebo effect, where negative expectations about treatment lead to side effects, can have a huge impact on clinical outcomes. It is important that healthcare professionals are aware of the nocebo effect and talk to patients about their medicines in a balanced way so as to try to minimise it.
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More to be done to support children from black and ethnic minority backgrounds in medicines adherence and optimisation Subscription
The article ‘Communicating with parents and involving children in medicines optimisation’ written by Ashifa Trivedi and published in The Pharmaceutical Journal (2017;299(7906):231–234) was an enjoyable and thought-provoking read, especially while I embark on ...
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Non-adherence: medicine’s weakest link Subscription
Non-adherence to prescribed medicines is one of the biggest obstacles to effective healthcare, impacting on patients, healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical companies and healthcare systems. Pharmacists are ideally placed to improve adherence, but are effective interventions available and how can pharmacists match patients to an appropriate intervention?
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Smoking cessation services: how nicotine replacement therapy and counselling through pharmacy can support adherence and quitting Subscription
Smoking is the primary cause of preventable ill health and death in the UK. Pharmacists and pharmacy teams are well placed to provide stop-smoking services, which are cost-effective interventions to help people give up smoking.
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Patients need access to comprehensible information and their summary care records Subscription
This letter is in response to ‘Health literacy, medication adherence and thriving healthcare systems: connecting the dots’.
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Digital ingestion tracking system in pills and medication adherence: future advantages and current limitations Subscription
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approval of the first-ever digital pill, Abilify MyCite, an aripiprazole tablet for the treatment of schizophrenia, marks the closest we have come to revolutionising the way the uptake of pills is monitored[1].
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