Background People who are prescribed self administered medications typically take only
about half their prescribed doses. Efforts to assist patients with adherence to medications …

Nonadherence to medicines is a global problem compromising health and economic
outcomes for individuals and society. This article outlines how adherence is defined and …

Background Adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a key predictor of the
success of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment, and is potentially amenable to …

Background. Contemporary antiretroviral treatment regimens are simpler than in the past,
with lower pill burden and once-daily dosing frequency common. We performed a meta …

Pharmaceutical prescriptions are core to the treatment of most chronic illnesses, yet only half
are taken as prescribed. Despite the high costs of nonadherence to individuals and society …

The need to achieve≥ 95% adherence to HAART for treatment effectiveness may be a
barrier for universal initiation at early stages of HIV. Using longitudinal data collected from …

Patient non-adherence to medication is a pervasive problem that contributes to poor patient
health and high healthcare costs. Basic research and interventions have focused thus far on …

Background This study investigated adherence and associated factors among people with
recent injection drug use (IDU) or current opioid agonist therapy (OAT) and compared once …

Non-adherence to health behaviors required for chronic illness self-management is
pervasive. Advancing health-behavior theory to include behavioral initiation and …

Background: We examined trends in adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy
(HAART) and HIV RNA suppression and estimated the minimum cutoff of adherence to …