Journal of General Practice

Nicolas Senn

Publications

• Case Report
  Ultra-adherence with Electronic Pills-box may Reveal Poor Adherence
  Author(s): Marie Paule Schneider, Matthias Cavassini, Olivier Bugnon and Nicolas SennMarie Paule Schneider, Matthias Cavassini, Olivier Bugnon and Nicolas Senn
  
  One of the challenges of antiretroviral treatments (cART) in HIV is to achieve optimal and persistent adherence. In order to achieve this, electronic pill-boxes used in conjunction with motivational interviewing have shown promising results in monitoring and improving patient’s adherence to treatments. This study reports a case where the patient was opening every day on time his pill-box to discard systematically the tablets in order to hide consciously his nonadherence. A too regular pattern in drug intake according to the electronic pill-box should alert health professionals for the potential risk of distorted adherence results. .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2329-9126.1000127

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