CVS Caremark research finds new, more accurate method for classifying patient medication adherence behaviors

Researchers at CVS Caremark (NYSE:CVS) and Brigham and Women's Hospital have found that a new approach to classifying patients by their long-term medication adherence behavior may be more accurate than traditional approaches. In a study published in the September 2013 issue of Medical Care, the researchers followed more than 264,000 statin-users over a 15-month period and created measures to account for different adherence behaviors...