Is it acceptable for people to be paid to adhere to medication? No.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Can incentives improve antipsychotic adherence in major mental illness? A mixed-methods systematic review.BMJ open · 2022
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2. Offering financial incentives to increase adherence to antipsychotic medication: the clinician experience.Journal of clinical psychopharmacology · 2015
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3. Effectiveness of financial incentives to improve adherence to maintenance treatment with antipsychotics: cluster randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2013
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4. Improving attendance for cardiovascular risk assessment in Australian general practice: an RCT of a monetary incentive for patients.BMC family practice · 2012
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5. Peer mentoring and financial incentives to improve glucose control in African American veterans: a randomized trial.Annals of internal medicine · 2012
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6. Take patients seriously when they say financial incentives help with adherence.BJPsych bulletin · 2023
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7. Changing health behaviors using financial incentives: a review from behavioral economics.BMC public health · 2019
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8. When is coercive methadone therapy justified?Bioethics · 2018
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9. Handheld Electronic Technology for Weight Loss in Overweight/Obese Adults.Current obesity reports · 2014
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10. Financial incentives to encourage healthy behaviour: an analysis of U.K. media coverage.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2013
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11. Provider and patient directed financial incentives to improve care and outcomes for patients with diabetes.Current diabetes reports · 2013
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12. Patients as mercenaries?: the ethics of using financial incentives in the war on unhealthy behaviors.Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes · 2009
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13. A test of financial incentives to improve warfarin adherence.BMC health services research · 2008
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14. Drug misusers and incentives: Methadone works if used properly.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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15. Payment for treatment adherence: Incentives help vulnerable patients to stay well.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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16. Payment for treatment adherence: Drug misusers are likely to abuse the system.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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Corrections and comments

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  Payment for treatment adherence: Drug misusers are likely to abuse the system.2007
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  Payment for treatment adherence: Incentives help vulnerable patients to stay well.2007
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  Is it acceptable for people to be paid to adhere to medication? Yes.2007

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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