How Accurate Are Electronic Monitoring Devices? A Laboratory Study Testing Two Devices to Measure Medication Adherence

Sensors

Leentje De Bleser¹  Sabina De Geest¹  Sofie Vandenbroeck¹  Johan Vanhaecke² 

[1] Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 35 box 7001, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; E-Mails:;Heart Transplantation Program, University Hospitals of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; E-Mail:

关键词: electronic monitoring;    accuracy;    laboratory study;    adherence behaviour;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s100301652

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

In a prospective descriptive laboratory study, 25 Helping Hand^™ (HH) (10 without and 15 with reminder system) and 50 Medication Event Monitoring Systems (MEMS) (25 with 18-month and 25 with 2-year battery life) were manipulated twice daily following a predefined protocol during 3 consecutive weeks. Accuracy was determined using the fixed manipulation scheme as the reference. Perfect functioning (i.e., total absence of missing registrations and/or overregistrations) was observed in 70% of the HH without, 87% of the HH with reminder, 20% MEMS with 18 months, and 100% with 2-year battery life respectively.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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