In the People's Republic of China, adding psychosocial interventions to medications has been shown to decrease the risk for medication discontinuation and relapse and to improve quality of life and functioning compared with medication alone.
To systematically review the evidence on the impact of interventions to improve medication adherence in adults prescribed antihypertensive medications.
Thus, monitoring the use of different hospital medication systems will not only facilitate prioritisation of potential NHS-wide interventions to increase medication safety, but also provide an indicator of the pace of change in the NHS.
However, a review of interventions to improve medication adherence in the elderly found that the use of reminders on medication packaging [ 8], reminder calendars[ 8], and mailed reminders [ 9], did not did not improve medication adherence over control groups.
Patients can find taking medication regularly difficult, particularly for multiple drugs in asymptomatic conditions [ 25, 26], emphasising the need for interventions to support medication taking as prescribed alongside other health-related behaviours.
However, little is known about medication systems and processes currently used within the English NHS; this presents a challenge for developing NHS-wide interventions to increase medication safety.
As administrators in acute care facilities consider strategies for organizational and staff interventions to reduce medication errors, it is important to consider physical environmental factors to have a comprehensive understanding of the issue.
The government has therefore implemented a number of interventions to improve medication management services.
Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions to improve medication adherence.
