Patient Adherence

Utilizing remote patient monitoring can improve dialysis adherence and in turn, decrease hospitalizations and mortality, according to a speaker at the virtual Annual Dialysis Conference.

Implementation of evidence-based adherence-promotion strategies correlated with a 50% reduction in acute allograft rejection for 2 years among kidney transplant recipients.

In a video interview, Rishi P. Singh, MD, staff surgeon at Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institue, associate professor of ophthalmology at Lerner College of Medicine and Healio/OSN Board Member, discusses how many patients failed to adhere to follow-up recommendations and continue anti-VEGF therapy over the COVID-19 pandemic and studies he has conducted that detail the negative outcomes of missing follow-up.

Although improvement of services would be expected over the years, long-term outcomes of intravitreal injections have not changed over the past decade and are suboptimal, according to a big data analysis performed in the U.K.

Compared with patients on hemodialysis, kidney transplant recipients were more likely to follow health care provider recommendations on pharmacotherapy and lifestyle behaviors, according to this study.