AUTHOR=Xu Hai-Yan , Yu Yong-Ju , Zhang Qian-Hui , Hu Hou-Yuan , Li Min 

TITLE=Tailored Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence for Cardiovascular Diseases

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Pharmacology

VOLUME=Volume 11 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.510339

DOI=10.3389/fphar.2020.510339

ISSN=1663-9812

ABSTRACT=Over the past half-century, medical research on cardiovascular disease (CVD) has achieved a great deal; however, medication adherence is unsatisfactory. Nearly 50% of patients do not follow prescriptions when taking medications, which limits the ability to maximize their therapeutic effects and results in adverse clinical outcomes and high health care costs. Furthermore, the effects of medication adherence interventions are disappointing, and tailored interventions have been proposed as an appropriate way to improve medication adherence. To rethink and reconstruct methods of improving medication adherence for CVD, the literature on tailored interventions for medication adherence focusing on CVD within the last five years is retrieved and reviewed. Focusing on identifying non-adherent patients, detecting barriers to medication adherence, delivering clinical interventions and constructing theories, the following paper reviews the present state of tailored interventions for medication adherence in CVD, and also rethinks the present difficulties and suggests avenues for future development.