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Getting Patients to Swallow Their Medicine: Faxing Alerts to Physicians Not Enough to Improve Antidepressant Adherence.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, March, 2006
Byline: Harvard University Medical School
BOSTON, March 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a study designed to assess whether alerts faxed to physicians can help to improve patient adherence to antidepressant medications, Kara Zivin Bambauer, PhD, research fellow in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention (of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care) and colleagues have concluded that fax interventions to prescribers did not positively affect rates of patient adherence. The results are reported in the March 13 Archives of Internal Medicine.
Depression is a major source of illness, lost productivity, and health care expenditures. Antidepressants are most effective in reducing depression symptoms, relapse, and recurrence when taken in...
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