Category list : Adherence compliance and concordance
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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
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
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
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
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.
