Luke Bereznicki

TL;DR: The threshold for optimal adherence to achieve better virologic outcomes appears to be wider than the commonly used cut-off point (≥95% adherence), which could be redefined to a slightly lower level to encourage the prescribing ART at an early stage of HIV infection.

TL;DR: Economic constraints, perceived stigma and discrimination, fasting, holy water, medication side effects, and dissatisfaction with healthcare services were major reasons for patients being non-adherent and lost to follow-up.

TL;DR: There is a clear need to investigate the utility of tools to identify high-risk patients to target appropriate interventions toward prevention of ADR-related hospital admissions, and the cost-effectiveness of such strategies would be necessary to target them to those older individuals who are at highest risk of ADRs.

TL;DR: The majority of ADR-related hospitalisations in adults in developed and developing countries were preventable in both settings, highlighting the importance of improving medication use, particularly in vulnerable patient groups such as the elderly, patients with multiple comorbidities and, in developing countries, Patients with HIV/AIDS.

TL;DR: In the hands of patients the CoaguChek XS showed good correlation with laboratory determination of INR and compared well with expanded and narrow clinical agreement criteria.