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Electronic Reminders, Texts Could Help Boost Medication Adherence

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Sending text messages and other electronic reminders might improve medication  adherence in the short term, but the long-term effectiveness of the strategy  remains unclear, according to a review published in the Journal of  the American Medical Informatics Association, CMIO reports.

About the Review

For the review, researchers from the Netherlands analyzed 13 studies that  evaluated the effectiveness of medication reminders delivered through:

  • Text messages;
  • Electronic reminder devices; and
  • Pagers (Byers, CMIO, 5/1).

Review Findings

The researchers found that in all but two of the studies, the electronic  reminders contributed to a “significant improvement” in medication adherence  over a short time span of six months or less. They noted that the long-term  effectiveness of electronic medication reminders was unclear (Durben Hirsch, FierceHealthIT, 4/30).

The researchers wrote that text messages and other electronic reminders  “appear to be easily integrated into patients’ lives. As such, this seems to be  a simple intervention for both patient and professional for enhancing medication  adherence” (CMIO, 5/1).

The study authors also called for further research to examine how often  electronic medication reminders should be sent (FierceHealthIT,  4/30).

Source: iHealthBeat

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