Estimating medication adherence from Electronic Health Records: comparing methods for mining and processing asthma treatment prescriptions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medication adherence is usually defined as the extent of the agreement between the medication regimen agreed to by patients with their healthcare provider and the real-world implementation. Proactive identification of those with poor adherence may be useful to identify those with poor disease control and offers the opportunity for ameliorative action. Adherence can be estimated from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) by comparing medication dispensing records to the prescribed regimen. Several methods have been developed in the literature to infer adherence from EHRs, however there is no clear consensus on what should be considered the gold standard in each use case. Our objectives were to critically evaluate different measures of medication adherence in a large longitudin

SUBMITTER: Tibble H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10337150 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature