Measuring clinical pathway adherence

Challenges in measuring adherence to clinical practice guidelines.

Family physicians have expressed a broad range of concerns regarding practice guidelines and other clinical policies. These concerns include (but are certainly not limited to) skepticism about the scientific accuracy of recommendations, uneasiness about infringement on autonomy in clinical care, and apprehension regarding potential adverse consequences if wrongly applied by third parties. I-4 B...

Similarity Measuring between Patient Traces for Clinical Pathway Analysis

Clinical pathways leave traces, described as activity sequences with regard to a mixture of various latent treatment behaviors. Measuring similarities between patient traces can profitably be exploited further as a basis for providing insights into the pathways, and complementing existing techniques of clinical pathway analysis, which mainly focus on looking at aggregated data seen from an exte...

Ingestible sensor system for medication adherence as biomarker for measuring patient adherence to medication in clinical trials

Qualification opinion on ingestible sensor system for medication adherence as biomarker for measuring patient adherence to medication in clinical trials

Measuring concurrent adherence to multiple related medications.

OBJECTIVES To propose standardized methods for measuring concurrent adherence to multiple related medications and to apply these definitions to a cohort of patients with diabetes mellitus. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study of 7567 subjects with diabetes prescribed 2 or more classes of oral hypoglycemic agents in 2005. METHODS For each medication class, adherence for each patient was e...