Medication adherence outcomes of 771 intervention trials: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Excellent medication adherence contributes to decreases in morbidity, mortality, and health care costs. Although researchers have tested many interventions to increase adherence, results are sometimes conflicting and often unclear. This systematic review applied meta-analytic procedures to integrate primary research that tested medication adherence interventions. Comprehensive searching completed in 2015 located 771 published and unpublished intervention studies with adherence behavior outcomes. Random-effects model analysis calculated standardized mean difference effect sizes. Meta-analytic moderator analyses examined the association between adherence effect sizes and sample, design, and intervention characteristics. Analyses were conducted in 2016. A standardized mean difference effect s

SUBMITTER: Conn VS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5467216 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature