Adherence to treatment balances on patients’ beliefs about the necessity for medication and their concerns about taking it (Necessity-Concerns Framework, NCF™). To support patients effectively there is a need to personalise. Each person’s experience of a medicine is...
One size drug does not fit all: genetics and non-adherence
The lost and forgotten – Are some groups of people continually excluded from research?
It is well-recognised that certain sectors of society are repeatedly underrepresented in research studies. Ethical guidelines for the inclusion of children, women and the cognitively impaired in research exist, but researchers tend to bias recruitment towards ‘normal’...