Paper Info
Title
A framework for assessing adherence and persistence to long-term medication.
Abstract
Poor adherence and persistence to long-term medication is a growing concern worldwide. Despite their importance, tools that facilitate the identification of patients who show poor adherence and persistence rates are limited. Herein we present a framework we have developed to assist in assessing adherence and persistence rates. We demonstrate the framework's features using production electronic medical record data from a general medical practice in the context of analysis of antihypertensive and antidepressant prescribing. The framework is flexible and extensible and has the potential to be used as a tool to improve the management of patients on long-term medication either to benchmark quality over a specified evaluation period or for the direct identification of specific patients that would benefit from immediate follow-up.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.3233/978-1-60750-044-5-547
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
ambulatory care information systems,clinical audit,long term care,non-adherence,quality indicators
Persistence (computer science),Medical record,Medical emergency,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
150
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thusitha Mabotuwana1105.54
Jim Warren2507.60