Michel Perreault, Guillaume Tremblay, Diana Milton, Niamh Power, Christopher Kucyk, Nicolas Perron-Trudel
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Sante publique (Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France)
new pharmacological measures assessing medication adherence including longitudinal drug levels hair emerging little known however best present results measures patients clinicians comprehensive easytounderstand acceptable formats therefore developed three graphical display prototypes hypothetical daily drug concentrations measured hair assessed acceptability among participants interviewed 30 hivpositive patients 29 clinicians examine perceived acceptability graphical display prototype patients clinicians generally found prototypes acceptable facilitating understanding patient adherence however areas optimization identified patients lower health literacy prototypes provide sufficient understanding link medicationtaking drug concentrations hair patients also preferred pictographs bar line graphs clinicians largely preferred daily drug concentration data bar graphs information included measures accuracy participants questioned utility showing drug concentrations therapeutic range though found colorcoding results acceptable assessing prototype versions graphical displays hypothetical longitudinal adherence data indicated ways optimize acceptability acceptable prototypetested graphical displays longitudinal patientspecific drug concentrations may enhance adherence monitoring clinical settings