Adherence compliance and concordance

What healthcare professionals can do to help limit HIV resistance

Limiting HIV resistance must not be neglected in an era where we continue to see breakthroughs in treatment for the infection once labelled a death sentence.…

Patients with resistant hypertension not taking medicines, research suggests

Many patients with apparent resistant hypertension may just not be taking all their medicines, Dutch researchers have reported.…

Around one in six patients does not collect newly prescribed treatment

Around one in six patients fails to get a prescription filled the first time it is prescribed for them by a doctor, according to new research.…

Team interventions improve adherence to lipid-lowering medication

Pharmacist-led interventions and patient education are better at improving adherence to lipid-lowering drugs than other types of intervention, such as electronic or telephone reminders, study results show.…

Why some patients are reluctant to take osteoporosis drugs

There are a number of factors that contribute to patients’ fear and reluctance to take osteoporosis drugs, leaving them at increased risk of fractures.…

Evaluate pharmacists working in GP pilot schemes, MPs urge

Pilot schemes testing whether locating pharmacists inside GP practices can improve clinical care and free up GP time now need to be formally evaluated, says an all-party parliamentary group of MPs.…

Global pharmacist body wants strategies to boost safe medicine use

Governments and pharmacy organisations should introduce national medicines information strategies to improve the safe and effective use of medicines, according to a report by the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP).…

SSRI could relieve aromatase inhibitor side effects

Adherence to aromatase inhibitor therapy by women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer is often poor because of the occurrence of musculoskeletal side effects.…

Better therapy persistence seen with separate antihypertensives than single fixed-dose combinations

Patients who take antihypertensive treatment as separate pills are more likely to continue the therapy than those who take it as a single fixed-dose combination, a study shows.…

Fixed dose combination products have little impact on medicines adherence

While persistence rates favoured patients taking a fixed dose combination of a statin and ezetimibe, it made no difference to adherence, researchers found.…