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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2024

Medication adherence in allergic diseases and asthma: a literature review.

Elizabeth Malaya, Adrianna Piątkowska, Michał Panek, Piotr Kuna, Maciej Kupczyk, Grzegorz Kardas

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. A qualitative evaluation of asthma patients' treatment adherence and psychosocial challenges in their daily lives: A phenomenological design.Canadian journal of respiratory therapy : CJRT = Revue canadienne de la therapie respiratoire : RCTR · 2026
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  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Biomarkers for selecting biologic therapies in asthma.Therapeutic advances in respiratory disease
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Elizabeth MalayaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Adrianna PiątkowskaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Michał PanekDepartment of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Piotr KunaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Maciej KupczykDepartment of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Grzegorz KardasDepartment of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients' collaboration with healthcare providers, along with their individual dedication to follow medical recommendations, is a crucial component of effective therapy in chronic diseases. If a patient fails to fill their prescription, administers the medication improperly in terms of method and/or dosage, misses follow-up visits, or discontinues the treatment for any reason, these lapses can adversely affect disease management, impairing the effectiveness of symptom relief and prevention of progression and complications. A comparable situation pertains to allergic diseases, which require long-term and consistent treatment to achieve symptom alleviation and control. Research has shown that adherence rates for long-term therapy in chronic diseases have improved marginally over the years and continue to hover at approximately the figure published in a World Health Organization (WHO) report "Adherence to long-term therapies: evidence for action." from 2003, which had stated that only 50% of patients in developed countries follow medical recommendations and that this rate would be even lower in developing countries. Over 20 years later, literature indicated that there has been only a slight improvement on the matter, leaving room for developing and implementing effective solutions to improve medication compliance. Further investigation on this matter is required. Causes for non-adherence classified by the Global Initiative for Asthma in their main report seem to correspond to those of the report by the WHO. Similar dependency might be determined by other allergic diseases as they fit chronic disease criteria, and the issue of non-adherence affects them too. This literature review seeks to compile and synthesize current insights on factors that influence adherence, as well as explore potential methods for monitoring, evaluating, and improving its outcomes in chronic diseases related to the medical field of allergology, such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis, rhinoconjunctivitis, atopic dermatitis, and urticaria.

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allergic diseasesassessmentasthmainterventionsmedication adherence

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PMID39687293
PMCPMC11646763

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