Impressive advances in inhalation therapy for patients with asthma and chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD) have occurred in recent years. However, important gaps in care …

Background Self‐management interventions help people with chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) to acquire and practise the skills they need to carry out disease‐specific …

During the last decades, the term “drug delivery systems”(DDSs) has almost fully replaced
previously used terms, such as “dosage forms”, in an attempt to emphasize the importance …

Background Community pharmacies are an easily accessible and cost‐effective platform for
delivering health care worldwide, and the range of services provided has undergone rapid …

Background Guidelines recommend that patients treated with inhalers receive adherence
counseling and device training. Digital technologies that assess both inhaler adherence and …

Digital inhaler systems, remote patient monitoring, and remote therapeutic monitoring offer
great promise as diagnostic tools and therapeutic interventions to improve adherence and …

Introduction Suboptimal asthma control is associated with incorrect inhaler use and poor
medication adherence, which could lead to unfavourable clinical and economic outcomes …

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide have asthma and COPD. Current medications to
control these chronic respiratory diseases can be administered using inhaler devices, such …

Background Asthma is a common chronic condition amongst children. Poor adherence to
asthma medications can increase asthma exacerbations, absence from school, healthcare …

Background Treatment non-adherence is a serious challenge to effective tuberculosis (TB)
control in Tibet. In this study we will pilot and evaluate the effectiveness of using new …