Can mobile phone text messaging improve medication adherence to long term therapies?
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Can technology improve adherence to long-term therapies?
BACKGROUND Therapeutic nonadherence is defined as the lack of equivalence between the behavior of the patients and their prescribed medical treatment. Consequences of nonadherence include not only health outcomes, but also cost saving. Thus, this issue gets paramount importance in contemporary medicine. METHOD The aim of this article is to discuss the relationships between technology and adhe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart, Lung and Circulation
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1443-9506
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2015.06.785