An emerging partnership between a diverse group of providers, pharmacies, and other medical professionals is intended to help improve the rates of medication adherence. The coalition involves ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Understanding the drivers of nonadherence to BP-lowering medications and tailoring interventions to these ...

Text message reminders to patients can improve medication adherence by 15.3 to 17.8 percent, according to a meta-analysis of 13 individual studies, published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing. The ...

Conversations between the patient and provider should focus on the stakes of antiobesity treatment and continuation, says Hamlet Gasoyan, PhD, Cleveland Clinic. Hamlet Gasoyan, PhD, researcher at the ...

Cost is a major determining factor for patients deciding whether to pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy. When medications are too expensive, patients tend to abandon them regardless of how ...

The importance of improving medication adherence came into sharp relief last week as IMS and Medicare released new U.S. prescription spending data. In the midst of the seismic shift in how Medicare ...

The first step in improving adherence is to find out your starting point. Patients will often tell their physicians they are taking more medication than they are really taking, out of fear of being ...

Medication management is not a new problem. In fact, nearly two-thirds of American adults—more than 131 million people—take prescription medication. And according to Public Health Reports, 75% of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “In this study, we used novel data analytics to capture patterns in daily medication-taking among patients with ...

A new study examining hypertension medication adherence found that high-tech interventions failed to improve how consistently patients take their blood pressure medications, despite successfully ...

The scientific statement, "Medication Adherence and Blood Pressure Control", summarizes the existing knowledge about the impact of medication non-adherence to the national prevalence of poor blood ...

It’s no secret that rising drug costs are a massive problem in the healthcare industry. Prices have been skyrocketing in the past few years—rising even faster than the rate of inflation. As a result, ...