Current Situation of Medication Adherence in Hypertension
Population
Patients with hypertension
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May support single-pill combinations to address adherence barriers; leaves open need for prospective trials before practice change.
Structured PICO
P
Population
Patients with hypertension
I
Intervention
Strategies to improve medication adherence (e.g., single-pill fixed-dose combinations, medication re-packing)
A European expert group emphasizes the importance of medication adherence in hypertension and supports the use of single-pill fixed-dose combinations to simplify treatment regimens.
Cite This Study
Vrijens et al. (2017) studied this question.