Architecting Process of Care: A randomized controlled study evaluating the impact of providing nonadherence information and pharmacist assistance to physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the impact of connecting physicians, pharmacists, and patients to address medication nonadherence, and to compare different physician choice architectures.

Data sources and study setting

The study was conducted with 90 physicians and 2602 of their patients on medications treating chronic illness.

Study design

In this cluster randomized controlled trial, physicians were randomly assigned to an arm where the physician receives notification of patient nonadherence derived from real-time claims data, an arm where they receive this information and a pharmacist may contact patients either by default or by physician choice, and a control group. The primary outcome was resolving nonadherence within 30 days. We also considered physician engagement outcomes in

SUBMITTER: McConnell M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6981078 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature