Looking back at ESPACOMP Porto 2019
The annual ESPACOMP conference of this year about medication adherence was held at the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Porto link. Porto is Portugal’s second largest city and the country was actually named after the city (the former name of Porto was Portucale)….
Video ESPACOMP Porto 2019
A lovely video about ESPACOMP Porto 2019 made by Charlotte Poot
Polypill for the prevention of cardiovascular disease
A combination pill, a so-called ‘polypill’, that contains low doses of multiple medications with proven effectiveness for the prevention of cardiovascular disease led to greater reductions in systolic blood pressure and LDL cholesterol level than were observed with usual care in a socioeconomically deprived minority…
Statistical Analysis and Interpretation of Medication Adherence Data
Interested in how to measure medication adherence? Learn how to turn adherence electronic monitoring, EHR, claims data or self-report data into meaningful outcomes at the ESPACOMP Data Analysis workshop. Join us 19-21 November in Porto, Portugal. See workshop program. Register here.
Implementation science and e-health – Porto – Nov 21, 2019
Interested in how to implement e-health solutions to manage medication adherence ? Come to our preconference “Implementation science and e-health” at ESPACOMP 2019 in Porto on Nov 21. This one day workshop addresses the intersection of implementation science and e-Health. Building upon prior ESPACOMP implementation…
ESPACOMP 2019: Registration is open!
Dear colleague, We are delighted to announce that registration for the 23rd annual conference of ESPACOMP is now open. Program and preconferences We have a varied program with the John Urquhart memorial lecture by Professor J. Dunbar-Jacob and keynote speakers who discuss the conference theme…
Adherence: A bitter pill to swallow
On Wednesday October 2, 2019, the RCPE Manchester, in collaboration with Health Innovation Manchester, is organizing a symposium on patients’adherence to medicines; that is, the extent to which patients take their medications as prescribed. It aims for health professionals to understand The Problems, The Determinents,…
International experts in anticoagulation launch an interprofessional Guideline to support patients receiving oral therapy: New research from Int J Clin Pharm
The need to create a new Guideline emerged from the observation that anticoagulation therapy is consistently among the top five reasons for hospital admission, suggesting management of such therapy is suboptimal. Moreover, there was a need to complement those created by well-recognised societies and associations,…
Adherence to ART is key to reduce risk of HIV transmission
A prospective observational study, published in the Lancet, that was conducted at multiple sites in 14 European countries, demonstrates that the risk of HIV transmission is effectively zero in gay couples, who engage in condomless sex and of which 1 partner has HIV but whose…
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