adherence-package {medAdherence}R Documentation

Medication Adherence: Commonly Used Definitions

Description

Adherence is defined as "the extent to which a person's behavior coincides with medical or health advice", which is very important, for both clinical researchers and physicians, to identify the treatment effect of a specific medication(s).

A variety of measures have been developed to calculate the medication adherence. Definitions and methods to address adherence differ greatly in public literature. Choosing which definition should be determined by overall study goals. This package provides the functions to calculate medication adherence based on commonly used definitions.

Details

Package: medAdherence
Type: Package
Version: 1.02
Date: 2009-12-15
License: GPL-2
LazyLoad: yes

Author(s)

Xiangyang Ye, Pharmacotherapy Outcomes Research Center, University of Utah<xyexye08@gmail.com>

References

Haynes RB, Taylor DW, Sachett DL, eds. Compliance in health care. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1979

Hess, LM, Raebel, MA, et al. Measurement of Adherence in Pharmacy Administrative Databases: A Proposal for Statndard Definitions and Preferred Measures The Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2006;40:1280-1288

Examples

cmos <- rxExampledt()
predt <- preRxData(df=cmos, id=ptid, rxDate=rxDay, daySupply=supplies)

[Package medAdherence version 1.02 Index]