What this study adds
- The extent of usual care activities hardly differed between
physicians, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians; both pharmacists and
physicians reported that half of the adherence supporting activities
were performed and half were not.
- Neither doctors nor pharmacy staff members ask the patient about
perceived barriers to take the medication as prescribed: patients’
knowledge about medication and non-practical barriers and practical
barriers taking medication as prescribed are hardly inventoried by
both physicians and pharmacy staff.
- This study suggest that there is no positive relationship between the
extent of HCPs’ adherence supporting activities in usual care and
patients’ adherence to statins.