Review suggests mobile phone interventions improve medication adherence; rigorous longer term studies are needed to confirm effects

摘要

Context: Around 50% of patients do not take their medication as prescribed.1"3 Medication non-adherence may decrease productivity and put lives at risks, as well as wastes resources and increases healthcare costs. It may be intentional (eg, the patient questions the benefit of the therapy or has side effects) or unintentional (eg, due to carelessness or swallowing diffi-culties). Interventions for improvement of medication adherence have only had limited success so far.