Meanings of adherent patients in English

Once admitted, poorly adherent patients had more hospital days.

The healthcare costs of highly- adherent patients were largely pharmacy-related.

Switching ART treatment based on the resistance test result leads to a good virological response in adherent patients.

Conclusions: Many health care systems may be able to use pharmacy data to identify poorly adherent patients with schizophrenia.

Results: Initially adherent patients made more use of medicines and some healthcare services than non-adherent and partially adherent patients.

Increased pharmacy costs seemed to drive greater costs among highly- adherent patients, whereas lower adherence correlated to greater ER utilization but not to greater costs.