Medication packaging: simple solutions to nonadherence problems?

P Rudd

doi:10.1002/cpt1979253257

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Medication packaging: simple solutions to nonadherence problems?

P Rudd

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Abstract

Medication nonadherence represents a well-documented, highly prevalent obstacle to successful long-term management of chronic illnesses. Recent research has focused on predictors of nonadherence, interventions for improving adherence, and measurement of medication adherence. Better medication packaging has received little attention as a partial solution to nonadherence complexities. Packaging has the obvious advantages of being continuous, inexpensive, and patient-oriented, while demanding little physician extra involvement. The ideal packaging solution should include six component functions: storage, education, cueing, monitoring, dispensing, and reinforcement. Practically, all six functions are highly interrelated necessitating tradeoffs. Combining several functions usually results in increased cost and decreased portability. A number of proposed devices for specific adherence-improving function are described, ranging from complex to simple. The need for more and better research to define and validate interventions is more critical, now that we recognize the consequences of nonadherence.

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P Rudd. 1979. Medication packaging: simple solutions to nonadherence problems?. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpt1979253257

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