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What strategies have you found most effective in improving long-term medication adherence in patients with SLE?

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Rheumatology · Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)

The most important long-term drug to have good adherence to is hydroxychloroquine.

Soon after I began measuring HCQ drug levels in all my patients who were not in remission back in 2016, I was shocked at how many were not taking it very well (lived up to the low adherence numbers quoted in the litera...

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Rheumatology · Penn Medicine

Patient education and buy-in are key for achieving long-term medication adherence. Medication adherence is the outcome of several factors, including but not limited to access to healthcare: appointments, laboratory visits, transportation, health literacy, medication fatigue, and response to therapy,...

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