Jeanine Roeters van Lennep

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Kaiser trial finds digital reminders raise statin refills modestly

Critiqued the findings at the ESC session

About one in five patients in a large Northern California health system had stopped refilling their statins. Kaiser Permanente sent 20,604 of them a secure portal message, a text, a nonsecure email, or nothing beyond usual communication, then counted who refilled.

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Digital outreach addresses only a part of the problem because, still, in even the best scenario, 85% of the patients did not have their prescription refilled.

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Nonadherence isn't one problem. There are the ones who cannot take a statin. But there are also patients who will not take a statin.

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