Self‐management interventions including action plans for exacerbations versus usual care in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

A Lenferink, M Brusse‐Keizer… - Cochrane Database …, 2017 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) self‐management
interventions should be structured but personalised and often multi‐component, with goals …

Interventions to improve adherence to self-administered medications for chronic diseases in the United States: a systematic review

M Viswanathan, CE Golin, CD Jones… - Annals of internal …, 2012 - acpjournals.org
Background: Suboptimum medication adherence is common in the United States and leads
to serious negative health consequences but may respond to intervention. Purpose: To …

Interventions for enhancing medication adherence

R Nieuwlaat, N Wilczynski, T Navarro… - Cochrane database …, 2014 - cochranelibrary.com
Background People who are prescribed self administered medications typically take only
about half their prescribed doses. Efforts to assist patients with adherence to medications …

Interventions to enhance medication adherence in chronic medical conditions: a systematic review

S Kripalani, X Yao, RB Haynes - Archives of internal medicine, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
Background Approximately 20% to 50% of patients are not adherent to medical therapy. This
review was performed to summarize, categorize, and estimate the effect size (ES) of …

Measures of fidelity of delivery of, and engagement with, complex, face‐to‐face health behaviour change interventions: A systematic review of measure quality

H Walton, A Spector, I Tombor… - British journal of health …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Understanding the effectiveness of complex, face‐to‐face health behaviour change
interventions requires high‐quality measures to assess fidelity of delivery and engagement …

Effect of outpatient pharmacists' non‐dispensing roles on patient outcomes and prescribing patterns

N Nkansah, O Mostovetsky, C Yu… - Cochrane database …, 2010 - cochranelibrary.com
Background The roles of pharmacists in patient care have expanded from the traditional
tasks of dispensing medications and providing basic medication counseling to working with …

Pharmacist intervention to improve medication adherence in heart failure: a randomized trial

MD Murray, J Young, S Hoke, W Tu… - Annals of internal …, 2007 - acpjournals.org
Background: Patients with heart failure who take several prescription medications
sometimes have poor adherence to their treatment regimens. Few interventions designed to …

[HTML][HTML] Improving the quality of care through pain assessment and management

N Wells, C Pasero, M McCaffery - Patient safety and quality: An …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background At some point in life, virtually everyone experiences some type of pain. Pain is
often classified as acute or chronic. Acute pain, such as postoperative pain, subsides as …

The impact of clinical pharmacists on drug‐related problems and clinical outcomes

KK Viktil, HS Blix - Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Drug‐related problems are frequent and may result in reduced quality of life, and even
morbidity and mortality. Many studies have shown that clinical pharmacists can effectively …

Medication adherence and persistence: a comprehensive review

KP Krueger, BA Berger, B Felkey - Advances in therapy, 2005 - Springer
Estimates of adherence to long-term medication regimens range from 17% to 80%, and
nonadherence (or nonpersistence) can lead to increased morbidity, mortality, and …