2008

Do IMF loans lead to higher rates of...

Why Games Matter: A Prescription for...

AlignMap In Cites is active again.After a lapse caused by...

Little Devices That Could: Making sure you eat your Wheaties...

Postcard Mailings Drive More Smokers to Quit...

Bonkers Institute: The patient is cheating himself  More...

Oops: One in 20 patients want to kill doctor

Bonkers Institute: Notorious drug evaders Wrong-headed ad...

Small Prescription Price Increases...

Controlled Trial of Directly Administered Antiretroviral...

Semi-Hiatus at AlignMap In Cites

Given the dearth of recent posts to AlignMap In Cites, this is, I suppose, a clarification rather...

“Is lying to doctors destined to be a thing of the past?”
— High-Tech Treatment Adherence...

“Getting people to do the things they need to do to keep...”
— Star-Telegram.com: |...

“A breath-monitoring device … allow[s] patients to...”
— [Note: Source is Press...

“Often, the difficulty with “compliance” with health care...”
— Albany Democrat Herald:...

“Despite being more depressed, women were still more likely...”
— Poststroke Depression Does Not...

Computer feedback can help with lung disease

“The strong effects in this research suggest that in the...”
— Patient Adherence: Lessons...

“Fixing Medicare to better reflect the medical conditions...”
— Strategies to Improve...

Cost-Effectiveness of Providing Full Drug...

How Can We Unlock the Mystery of Patient...

House-to-house searches for twinkies and...

“24% of nurses are repulsed by fat people. 17% of doctors...”
— Reality Check: Why Don’t...

Preventive Medicine: Giving Patients the Hard...

Concordance With Treatment Guidelines for...

“The biggest correlate [of noncompliance] is the belief that...”
— An Expert Interview With Gary...

“Patients often think about taking medication in terms of...”
— Expert Interview With Peter J....

State bill may open medical records

“The bill would allow companies like Adheris, the bill...”
— Consumer Advocate Speaks Out...

“Statewide data from Kendra’s Law conclusively demonstrates...”
— Senator Leland Yee, Ph.D....

Postdischarge Contact With MI Patients Boosts...

“Telling smokers their lung age significantly improves the...”
— Lung Age May Motivate Smokers...

Health Blog : Paying Pharmacists to Keep Diabetics On...

How to Improve Patient Compliance in...

MagneTrace: Drug Compliance Necklace “Investigators...

Improving Outcomes by Improving Adherence In...

“In marketing as in medicine, perception can be everything: a...”
— More Expensive Placebos Bring...

Heart Medications: The More You Skip, the...

Patient Adherence Programs: Components of...

Patients troubled by doctor screenings

“Every day over breakfast, I fill three pillboxes. Fifteen...”
— Living With Ulcerative Colitis...

“The intuitive assumption is that the more involved people...”
— Doctor knows best: take-charge...

“Poor medication compliance has been found in 1/2 to 2/3 of...”
— Psychosocial Interventions for...

The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors (New...

Accuracy of a Provincial Prescription...

“Activists’ attitudes about managing their physical and...”
— Curing Healthcare: The...

Adherence to disease-modifying therapies in...

“The good news is that adherence to treatment is associated...”
— Mentally ill unfairly...

“Hands down, the biggest reason for failure of medical...”
— The relevance of compliance...

“Patients who prefer to be highly involved in their treatment...”
— Highly Involved Patients...

“Eighty-three percent of patients in our study reported that...”
— The American Journal of...

Colonoscopy Fears Overcome When Patients...

“They [pharma] don’t say they want to create a program...”
— First-Hand Strategic Insights...

New Study Indicates Decreasing Prescription...

Study Published in Health Affairs Finds...

Impact Of Decreasing Copayments On Medication...

“The risky period [for medication noncompliance] clearly is...”
— Taking Their Medicine (Inside...

“Doctors all want to bring blood-pressure levels under...”
— Medication Adherence, Therapy...

“When we intensify therapy, it might all be appropriate, but...”
— Dr Michael Ho,  lead...

“But no study has proven cultural competency training works,...”
— Medicine meets a culture gap -...

Physicians Influence Rates of Colorectal...

“When we say ‘Do not stop this medication or you could...”
— Echo doc: Don’t be a...

“Your job is to be repetitive and stick to your story. Keep...”
— Akshay G. Kapur: YOU determine...

Smart pillbox could be a lifesaver - MIT News Office The...

CROI: XDR TB Spread Pinned to Infection, Not...

“An unwanted by-product of the expanded treatment program was...”
— Is hole in DOTS policy playing...

Heart Risk Profile: Treatment Motivator

Impediments to Prescription Compliance

“The most important message I would give clinicians is not to...”
— New Developments and Research...

“According to the New England Journal of Medicine, clinical...”
— National Cancer Institute...

“Moving away from your family and toward your peer group is a...”
— Handing off teens’ care...

HIV/AIDS Advocacy Groups, Scientists React to...

Medication adherence and cognition (Patient...

“Failure to detect and treat depression may compromise...”
— Depression needs to be...

“Anything over an NNT of 50 is worse than a lottery ticket;...”
— Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any...

“The SinuNEB SinusPharmacy is a device that nebulizes...”
— Cancer Treatment: Aerosolized...

“Adherence over the first 12 months of therapy ranged from...”
— Adherence to Initial Adjuvant...

“QuiqMeds [is] a 2-year-old company that outfits doctors with...”
— A machine that may help your...

“While 70% of physicians counsel their patients about the...”
— The original miracle drug Dr....

“Economic models are applied to medication noncompliance....”
— Understanding Medication...

Physician Counseling Promotes Healthier...

The Psychotic Dilemma

Workplace Wellness Programs: Motivating...

Remote living Aboriginals in Australia: It’s a new world...

“Approximately half of patients stop taking their weekly...”
— Global Problem Of Adherence To...

The Importance Of Medication Compliance

Medication Adherence and Compliance

“33% of patients admit that they did not fill all their NEW...”
— Cancer Patients and...

“Uncontrolled diabetes wreaks havoc on the body, often...”
— Diabetes costs USA more than...

“Having to pay as little as $10 of a mammogram’s cost...”
— Copays Lead Some to Skip...

“Medicine is not set up to worry about what happens when...”
— The Modesto Bee | Lifesaving...

“The article in Health Affairs outlines how a drug-licensing...”
— Researchers Propose Consumers...

“Nobody knows why people lie to their doctors and nurses but...”
— Lies, lifestyle and longevity...

“The National Audit Office wants to print the cost of drugs...”
—  From To improve compliance,...

“As far as I an remember, that was the only compliant patient...”
— From Respiratory Therapy Cave,...

Explaining Patients' Beliefs About the...

The Placebo Effect (at Science Based...

Study: Calls help couch potatoes walk

Wellness Programs May Face Legal Tests -...

January/February 2008 Annals of Family...

The economic consequences of noncompliance in...

Americans Use Excessive Force, or None at...