The publication about the EMERGE guideline in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing was among the most dowloaded articles in 2019, see link. The EMERGE guideline or the ‘ESPACOMP Medication Adherence Reporting Guideline’ is aimed at improving the reporting of medication adherence studies. It is…

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…

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,…

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…

A study published in the JAMA demonstrates that a 3-month intervention program that stimulates patients’ long-term self-management in combination with transition, reduced the number of hospitalizations in patients with COPD and improved their quality of life as well (see: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2714645). These findings are important, as…