These evaluations should use databases with prescription fill information or electronic monitoring tools to assess patient adherence to cinacalcet to reduce the risk of misclassification bias.
With an electronic session-by-session monitoring tool, an adherence rate was reached of 48%%, involving either a parent or youth assessment for at least two sessions [ 19].
Our findings are in line with research of Hall and colleagues (2014), which showed a successful enhancement of clinicians' completion rates with 30%% (2014) and found a completion rate for families of 49%% after implementing an electronic session by session monitoring tool.
Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with clinicians (n = 10), administrative staff (n = 8) and families (n = 15) who participated in a feasibility study of an electronic session-by-session outcome monitoring tool, (SxS), which is based on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).
To evaluate the value of using pharmacy records to identify poor compliers, it would be useful to compare the use of pharmacy records to determine compliance with a more sensitive measurement tool, such as electronic monitoring.
Electronic monitoring may however be a very useful tool to improve compliance by giving patients insight into their own dosing history.
Methods to establish adherence to antiretroviral treatment include pill count, pharmacy refill records, various self-reporting tools such as questionnaires and visual analogue scales, detection of drug blood levels and electronic monitoring devices [ 13].
Although electronic monitoring such as Real Time Medication Monitoring is considered more sensitive for measuring non-adherence than other, subjective tools for adherence measurement [ 13, 61, 62] the actual adherence to ICS may still be overestimated.
Until recently, electronic monitoring applied mostly to Web browsing.
Those parolees will also get increased electronic monitoring.
