Medication adherence in patients with glaucoma and disability
JAMA Dec 19, 2021
Hou CH, Pu C, et al. - A decrease in glaucoma medication adherence by up to 17.60% can occur due to certain types of disability, and therefore, policies targeting medication adherence should consider these disability types.
This is a population-based cohort study, that comprised 46,468 patients with glaucoma, to assess if disability results in decreased glaucoma medication adherence and if this decrease differs by type of disability.
A higher frequency of glaucoma outpatient visits was noted in patients with disabilities than those without disabilities.
Having limb disability, being in a vegetative state, and having dementia were found to be linked with 0.226 to 3 fewer outpatient visits and lower medication adherence (by 0.7-17.6 percentage points).
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