Call for abstracts on medication adherence
Our call for abstracts on medication adherence research will soon open. We therefore invite you to submit your abstract about your latest adherence research. We welcome submissions on relevant aspects of medication adherence and compliance. For example, intervention research, observational studies, implementation science, measurement studies, or policy…
The Wiley Handbook of Healthcare Treatment Engagement
ESPACOMP is happy to announce the release of “The Wiley Handbook of Healthcare Treatment Engagement” This handbook deals with the complex issue of how to engage patients in treatment. Terms such as ‘treatment adherence’, ‘concordance’ or ‘compliance’ may not tell the whole story. Such terms may offer…
Who is … Sabina De Geest
Talking with Sabina De Geest about medication non-adherence. As a nurse, she was trained clinically in heart transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh (US) and the UZ Leuven (Belgium). She is currently a professor in nursing science at the University of Basel in Switzerland (and…
Translation of ABC taxonomy in various languages
Following the news that the ABC taxonomy of medication adherence was translated into French and German see here ,the ABC taxonomy will now be translated in other languages. The translation and validation of the ABC taxonomy in Italian has just begun. Additional translations are planned into Portuguese…
Translation of ABC taxonomy in French and German
Dear colleagues We are delighted BJCP published our paper entitled “The ABC taxonomy for medication adherence translated into French and German”. Many of the French- and German-speaking ESPACOMP members participated in the Delphi surveys and we want to thank you again warmly for your contribution….
Researchers like the EMERGE guideline
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…
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
ESPACOMP interprofessional training for healthcare professionals on adherence to medications in Lyon, France
An interdisciplinary Franco-Swiss team is currently developing the first French-speaking interprofessional training programme on adherence in Lyon, France. Supported by ESPACOMP, this programme is a collaboration between two academic institutions: the Health Services and Performance Research (HESPER) laboratory, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, and…
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…