Category list : Adherence compliance and concordance
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Patients’ perspectives on polypharmacy are highly personal, systematic review concludes Subscription
Healthcare professionals should actively seek to understand individual patients’ perspectives on polypharmacy and its challenges, research in BMJ Open has concluded.
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Evaluation of the impact of pharmacist polypharmacy reviews within the Govan Social and Healthcare Integration Partnership (SHIP) project Subscription
Providing pharmacist-led medicines reviews to patients in one of the most deprived areas in Scotland to reduce the health inequality gap.
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Providing medicines adherence support to areas of high deprivation in England: community pharmacists’ experience Subscription
Semi-structured interviews assessing pharmacists’ experiences of providing interventions, products and services that support medicines adherence.
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Top five most popular research articles of 2019
This year, our peer-reviewed research papers received more than 400,000 unique page views.
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Developing a co-produced e-learning programme to support marginalised medically underserved patients Subscription
There have been recent calls for the NHS to pursue a value-based healthcare system, one that is “equitable, sustainable and transparent”[1]. However, promoting a culture based on the values of patient-centred care can be challenging. One notable example in pharmacy ...
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Alexa’s medicine reminders can be 'distressing' for dementia patients
Patients with dementia can be “deeply distressed” to receive medication reminders from Alexa-type devices, according to technology thinktank Doteveryone.
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New tool developed to support decision-making on multicompartment compliance aids Subscription
Researchers have developed a decision tool to ensure that multi-compartment compliance aids are given only those patients who will benefit from them.
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Pharmacists: we can support people with alcohol issues
Brief interventions by community pharmacists — which require little time and no specialist training — can make a big difference to people with alcohol addiction, says Addaction pharmacy director Roz Gittins.
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Weekly contact with pharmacist improves medicine adherence in people with heart failure Subscription
Regular consultations with pharmacists lead to improved medicine adherence in people with chronic heart failure, research results show.
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Patients twice as likely to continue taking medicines if warned about health impact of non-adherence Subscription
Patients who are warned about the personal health consequences of not taking their medicines are nearly twice as likely to continue taking them as prescribed, research has found.
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Patient-centred clinic improves outcomes after myocardial infarction Subscription
A post-myocardial infarction medicines optimisation clinic, led primarily by a pharmacist with support from a cardiologist, has resulted in improved medicines adherence and guideline concordance, study results published in Open Heart show.
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More than 60 million multicompartment compliance aids given out each year in England Subscription
Exclusive: An estimated 64 million multicompartment compliance aids are given out by community pharmacies each year in England, a new report has shown, as data show rising reported incidences of associated harm.
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Are we dispensing too many multicompartment compliance aids? Subscription
Millions of multicompartment compliance aids (MCAs) are handed out by pharmacists each year, but evidence for their benefits is hard to find. Few patients are assessed before being given an MCA and concerns are building over potential errors and harms.
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Boots to switch from monitored dosage systems to patient pack dispensing in care homes Subscription
Exclusive: Boots is changing the way it dispenses medication for care home residents from monitored dosage systems to patient pack dispensing from 1 March 2019.
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Increased intensity plus adherence maximises statin benefits Subscription
High adherence to intensive lipid-lowering therapy provides the greatest risk reduction for cardiovascular events, a study in JAMA Network Open has shown.
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First-year statin discontinuation and non-adherence common in older adults Subscription
A substantial proportion of older people who begin taking statins do not take them as intended, according to an Australian study published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.
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Reminder apps improve self-reported adherence to cardiovascular medicines Subscription
Medicine reminder apps can improve self-reported adherence to cardiovascular medicines, according to findings from a randomised clinical trial presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.
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One in six women with breast cancer 'do not adhere to tamoxifen' Subscription
Some 16% of premenopausal women with early-onset breast cancer fail to adequately adhere to tamoxifen, increasing their risk of recurrence and reduced survival.
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How pharmacists can encourage patient adherence to medicines Audio
This article outlines how community pharmacists can play an important role in medicines adherence, including examples of how to reinforce treatment.
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First implantable glucose monitor approved by FDA
The first continuous glucose monitoring system with a fully implantable sensor has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
