MedPage Today March 23, 2023
— Digital tools led to increased adherence and less medication escalation, trial reports
Use of digital measurement tools to track individual adherence to treatment helped avoid raising doses or adding medications and improved adherence in patients with uncontrolled asthma, the INCA Sun trial found.
After 32 weeks, 14% of patients in the treatment group and 32% of the control group saw an increase in their asthma medication burden (OR 0.31, 95% CI 0.15-0.64, P=0.0015), reported Richard Costello, MD, of RCSI University of Medicine and Health Science in Dublin, Ireland, and co-authors.
The coprimary endpoint of average adherence to medication at 20 to 32 weeks was 64.9% with the intervention and 55.5% in the control group (P=0.0012), according to the single-blind...
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