Improving the validity of determining medication adherence from electronic health record medications orders.
We developed an accurate and valid medication order algorithm to identify from electronic health records the definitive medication order intended for dispensing and applied this process to identify a cohort of patients and to stratify them into one of three medication adherence groups: early non-persistence, primary non-adherence, or ongoing adherence. We identified medication order data from electronic health record tables, obtained the orders, and linked the orders to dispensings. These [...]
Author(s): Carroll, Nikki M, Ellis, Jennifer L, Luckett, Capp F, Raebel, Marsha A
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000151