Performance on Medicare Star Ratings medication adherence measures is significantly tied to performance on the intermediate outcome and statin process measures. Objectives: To assess the interrelation ...

Primary care physicians only correctly estimate Medicare beneficiaries’ adherence to their medication regimens about half of the time, and they are more likely to overestimate adherence than ...

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them. — C. Everett Koop, M.D. Adherence to (or compliance with) a medication regimen is generally defined as the extent to which patients take medications ...