Acceptable medication non-adherence: A crowdsourcing study among French physicians for commonly prescribed medications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Achieving good medication adherence is a major challenge for patients with chronic conditions. Our study aimed to assess the Threshold for Unacceptable Risk of Non-adherence (TURN), defined as the threshold at which physicians consider the health risks incurred by patients due to medication non-adherence unacceptable, for the most commonly prescribed drugs in France.

Methods

We conducted an online study using a crowdsourcing approach among French general practitioners and specialists from September 2016 to August 2017. Physicians assessed the TURN for various levels of missed doses by evaluating a series of randomly presented clinical vignettes, each presenting a given medication with a given therapeutic indication. For each "drug-indication group" (i.e., all drug

SUBMITTER: Sidorkiewicz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6292617 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature