PURPOSE: To discuss criteria for the value assessment of medication adherence enhancing interventions (MAEIs). Audience will be asked to participate in identifying and ranking pre-determined criteria from most to least important and discussing their rationale for their choices.
DESCRIPTION: Several studies demonstrated that MAEIs (e.g., patient counselling, home telemonitoring, support groups) may improve adherence outcomes but existing evidence on the effectiveness of these MAEIs is of poor quality. This project aims to identify criteria for the value assessment of MAEIs. Values may include elements to measure health/non-health benefits for the patients or their family/caregiver and also benefits for societal health and the health care system. A systematic review of the literature was performed to identify important value domains and criteria for the assessment of MAEIs. Further, to critically evaluate these criteria and identify any potential new criteria, focus groups involving researchers/academia, payers, and healthcare practitioners were conducted. These focus group participants in addition to identifying new criteria, also ranked their top 10 criteria from their perspective. The workshop will consist of a 15-minute presentation on the project, followed by a review of the three sets of criteria. Employing a think-pair-share approach, the audience will be asked to review these criteria and identify to which one they most agree with. They will discuss this with their colleagues at their table/seat, then, through online polling, the audience members will choose one of the three as their preferred. The presenters will discuss the results and ask the audience to then identify, from an alphabetical listing of the criteria, their top 5 criteria. The audience will share this list with colleagues at their table/seat, discuss the rationale for their ranking and submit their individual rankings, through online polling, so a final list of the top 5 criteria from all audience members can be generated.