Medication Noncompliance and Patient Satisfaction Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Abstract

Medication noncompliance is a multifactorial problem. Strategies reducing the economic burden on patients should improve compliance and, thus, treatment outcomes. These findings further efforts to benchmark performance in Armenia and other post-Soviet countries against western standards and experiences.

Medication adherence and patient satisfaction following percutaneous coronary intervention: experience of a tertiary care cardiac center in Sri Lanka

“…The satisfaction about perceived health care of our population seems to be higher. In addition, this study had concluded that there was no statistical significance between high patient satisfaction and drug adherence 4 , which was the same for our study as well.…”

“…Therefore post PCI group have a satisfactory medication adherence compared to post myocardial infarction patients without interventions. Aghabekyan et al 4 had shown age and expenditure for medications as independent predictors of non-adherence, which was in contrast with our study. However, monthly income had an influence on drug adherence of our population.…”

“…More than four third of the study population had moderate to high adherence for the treatment and the prevalence of low adherence was below ten percent. According to the literature, medication adherence of post PCI patients was observed to be around 70% 4,6 with one study done in Brazil in 2013 with a study population of 101 had demonstrate medication adherence to be 97% 3 . Medication adherence in a group of post myocardial…”

“…There was a study where patient satisfaction was assessed under few subgroups and the results revealed 77.5% being generally satisfied, 95.9% satisfied with interpersonal manner and 88.2% were satisfied about communication 4 . The satisfaction about perceived health care of our population seems to be higher.…”

“…This can be influenced by patient factors, demographic variables and other associated co morbidities [4][5][6] . Satisfactory medication adherence is important for a better health outcome as well as to minimize the health care cost.…”