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…
Who is … Liset van Dijk?
Who is … Liset van Dijk? Liset Van Dijk wrote her doctoral thesis about family sociology at the University of Utrecht (in the center of the Netherlands) after she had obtained her Master degree at Wageningen University (situated in a small town in the eastern…
Who is … Bernard Vrijens?
Bernard Vrijens obtained his PhD in applied mathematics from Ghent University (Belgium) and currently holds the position of professor at the University of Liège (Belgium). He is also CEO of the AARDEX company that delivers MEMS devices for electronic monitoring of medication taking as well…
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,…
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