Novel incentive-based approaches to adherence

Clinical Trials Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

Ctj.sagepub.com: July 30, 2012.

Background Adherence to medications for chronic conditions is often very low, limiting the benefit to patients, even when the medications are effective and have favorable side effect profiles.

Purpose This article reviews some of the prior work on treatment adherence, introduces novel concepts from behavioral economics that can be used to design interventions to improve adherence, and proposes new approaches for clinical trials.

Methods Relevant experience of the authors and insights from the literature were combined to identify key issues and propose methodological improvements. Specific examples regarding adherence to warfarin are provided. Read More

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