A Randomized Encouragement Trial to Increase Mail Order Pharmacy Use and Medication Adherence in Patients with Diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mail order pharmacy (MOP) use has been linked to improved medication adherence and health outcomes among patients with diabetes. However, no large-scale intervention studies have assessed the effect of encouraging MOP use on medication adherence.

Objective

To assess an intervention to encourage MOP services to increase its use and medication adherence.

Design

Randomized encouragement trial.

Patients

63,012 diabetes patients from three health care systems: Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC), Kaiser Permanente Hawaii (KPHI), and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC) who were poorly adherent to at least one class of cardiometabolic medications and had not used MOP in the prior 12 months.

Intervention

Patients were randomized to receive eit

SUBMITTER: Ramachandran B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7858994 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature