Developing decision support algorithms for use in a digital therapeutic system
J. K. Lee, J. S. Nicholas, A. Albadawi, K. C. Insel
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AbstractThere are multifaceted factors that contribute to medication nonadherence among older adults that result in missed medication doses (Yap et al., 2016). Medication Education, Decision Support, Reminding, and Monitoring (MEDSReM©) is a digital therapeutic system (smartphone app and companion website) for improving adherence to hypertension medications and self-management of blood pressure among older adults. A key feature of MEDSReM© is Decision Support that guides the older user to take or skip a dose after their “time to take” has passed. The ‘safe window’ is a duration of time in hours when older adults can safely take their medication. Thus, the purpose of developing the safe windows within the MEDSReM© Decision Support Algorithms was to guide decision-making for older adults when they have missed the usual dosing hour and are trying to determine whether it is still safe to take the missed dose since there is an upcoming scheduled dose.Keywords: medication adherence, missed medication, hypertension, older adults, digital therapeutic
J. K. Lee, J. S. Nicholas, A. Albadawi, K. C. Insel (2022). Developing decision support algorithms for use in a digital therapeutic system. Gerontechnology, 21(s),1-1
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2022.21.s.572.pp3