Only half of the people who are prescribed medicines use them correctly, at the right time and in the correct dose. This is called medication adherence.
If a medicine is not used correctly, it does not work or is less effective. Or the doctor might think the medicine is not working and unnecessarily prescribes a new medicine, which can lead to side effects. In this way, many drugs are also wasted. Therefore, it is important to help patients adhere better to their medicine.
Our guests in this episode are Job van Boven, health economics & real-world drug outcomes expert and Daan Touw, clinical pharmacologist, both member of the Medication Adherence Expertise Center Of the northern Netherlands (MAECON). They want to help patients adhere better to their therapy. Therefore, they investigate if digital tools can help, such as a digital pill bottle that signals on your mobile phone when you have opened the bottle.
In this episode we discuss their recent study about combining digital adherence technology and therapeutic drug monitoring for personalised tuberculosis care.
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Read the publication in the European Respiratory Journal here.
