Patient-centered interventions to improve medication management and adherence: a qualitative review of research findings.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Patient-centered approaches to improving medication adherence hold promise, but evidence of their effectiveness is unclear. This review reports the current state of scientific research around interventions to improve medication management through four patient-centered domains: shared decision-making, methods to enhance effective prescribing, systems for eliciting and acting on patient feedback about medication use and treatment goals, and medication-taking behavior.

Methods

We reviewed literature on interventions that fell into these domains and were published between January 2007 and May 2013. Two reviewers abstracted information and categorized studies by intervention type.

Results

We identified 60 studies, of which 40% focused on patient education. Other

SUBMITTER: Kuntz JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5830099 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature