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Medication Adherence Assessment

Medication nonadherence is a serious problem that affects both patients and the healthcare system. It can lead to unnecessary disease progression, complications, and even death. It also results in wasted medication, increased medical costs and visits, and reduced quality of life and functional abilities. The Simplified Medication Adherence Questionnaire uses brief questions to assess a patient's adherence to their treatment plan. If a patient is found to be nonadherent, an intervention plan should be created with their pharmacy to provide customized guidance strategies like counseling and adapted services to improve medication taking.

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Medication Adherence Assessment

Medication nonadherence is a serious problem that affects both patients and the healthcare system. It can lead to unnecessary disease progression, complications, and even death. It also results in wasted medication, increased medical costs and visits, and reduced quality of life and functional abilities. The Simplified Medication Adherence Questionnaire uses brief questions to assess a patient's adherence to their treatment plan. If a patient is found to be nonadherent, an intervention plan should be created with their pharmacy to provide customized guidance strategies like counseling and adapted services to improve medication taking.

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MEDICATION ADHERENCE

ASSESSMENT
Medication nonadherence is a serious problem that not only affects the patient but also the health care
system. Therefore, it’s important to help your patients understand that poor medication adherence can lead to:
• Unnecessary disease progression and complications, • Waste of medication.
even death. • Increased use of expensive or specialized medical
• Reduced functional abilities and quality of life. resources, such as nursing homes or hospital admissions.
• Additional medical costs and doctor visits.

Use these abbreviated questions from Simplified Medication Adherence Questionnaire (SMAQ)1,2 to take a quick assessment
of a patient’s adherence to their current treatment plan.

1. Do you ever forget to take your medication? 6. Over the past 3 months, how many days did you not
take any medication at all?
c No
c Yes If so, how often?

7. Do you ever have difficulty affording your medication?


2. When you’re feeling better, do you ever stop taking c No
your medications? c Yes If so, how often?
c No
c Yes If so, how often?

8. Are there any other reasons preventing you from


taking your medication as prescribed?
3. Does the medication ever make you feel worse? c No
c No c Yes If so, what are they?
c Yes If so, do you stop taking it?

4. Did you skip taking your medication during the last


seven days?
If a patient is found nonadherent to treatment,
c No
it’s important to work together with their
c Yes If so, how often?
pharmacy to create an intervention plan.
The plan should include customized guidance strategies,
such as medication-focused counseling, motivational
5. Have you ever forgotten to take your medication interviewing and customized services, such as pillboxes,
during the weekend? medication cards, calendars, coordinated refills and
c No better follow-up.
c Yes

Knobel et al. Validation of a simplified medication adherence questionnaire in a large cohort of


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Morisky DE, Green LW, Levine DM. Concurrent and predictive validity of a self-reported measure of
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medication adherence. Med Care 1986, 24:67-74. trademark of the AHA. Unauthorized use prohibited. WF130350 3/23

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