Factors/Measure
A factor of medication non-adherence most common in elderly populations.
What is low health literacy?
The percent of hospitalizations due to non-adherence in the US annually.
What is 25%?
The population that is most at risk from non-adherence.
What is the elderly population?
What is any intervention that is feasible?
A type of illness that is increases non-adherence.
What is chronic illness? (Among patients with chronic illness, approximately 50% do not take medications as prescribed)
The percent of treatment failures in chronic disease that are caused by non-adherence.
What is up to 50%?
The money spent on avoidable medical spending per year.
What is $290 billion?
The most successful in-person intervention between: clinic-based intervention, hospital discharge, face-to-face, phone calls.
What is face-to-face intervention?
The percent of pills that patients need to take in order to be considered adherent.
What is 80%?
What is 3.8 billion?
What is 10 out of 10?
An example of an electronic intervention.
What is text messaging (or any other relevant method)?
The three ways of measuring adherence.
What is (1) subjective measurements (asking patient/family), (2) objective measurements (EMR, counting pills, (3) biochemical markers (nontoxic marker addition to pill)?
The likelihood of dying from medication non-adherence vs. homicide.
What is a 10 fold risk?
The percent of people with a prescription for a chronic condition like CVD that stop taking medication within the first year.
What is 50%
The term that defines the process of creating the most accurate list possible of all medications a patient is taking, including drug name, dosage, frequency, and route, and comparing that list against admission, transfer, and/or discharge orders.
What is medication reconciliation?