Category list : Adherence compliance and concordance
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Blister packs for Alzheimer's drugs to be redesigned to reduce confusion for patients Subscription
The blister packs of drugs for people with Alzheimer’s disease will, from summer 2016, be marked with days of the week in order to reduce confusion when patients take their medicine, the UK medicines safety regulator has announced.
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Identifying those with poor asthma control Subscription
People with poor asthma control may not always attend asthma review appointments and community pharmacists could help find them.
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‘Digital pill’ assessed for approval by FDA Subscription
A drug embedded with a digital sensor that records when a patient’s stomach is ingesting the medicine is being assessed for approval by the US medicines safety watchdog.
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Electronic medication boxes improve adherence in TB patients Subscription
A large study in China looked at how effective text message reminders were compared with electronic medicine boxes at getting patients to take their drugs and found the latter to be far superior.
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Chief pharmacists: pharmacy’s future is ‘clinical and digital’ Subscription
The pharmacy workforce must embrace clinical practice in the next few years amid advancements in medical and dispensing technologies, according to the UK’s chief pharmaceutical officers.
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Calendar packs can aid adherence Subscription
All medicines that are taken regularly (e.g. for blood pressure) should have the days of the week printed on the blister pack to aid adherence. Unfortunately I find it increasingly difficult to find such packaging. If these were more readily available it may reduce the number of patients needing and requesting monitored dosage systems. Annette Smith Towcester, Northamptonshire
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Association between SSRI use and violent crime could be explained by poor adherence Subscription
An association between the use of a class of antidepressant known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and violent crime in patients aged 15–24 years has been found by researchers.
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Researchers boost hypertension treatment using unconventional approach Subscription
Using approved drugs in unconventional ways could help improve compliance in patients with hypertension, according to a study in The Journal of Clinical Hypertension.
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Long-acting drugs lead to better outcomes for schizophrenics Subscription
Patients with a first episode of psychosis should be offered an injection of a long-acting antipsychotic rather than just oral medication.
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Hunt announces intention to display drug costs on packaging Subscription
The UK government is to publish the indicative cost of drugs on their packaging, in a move that it hopes will reduce medicines waste and improve adherence.
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