Together with the University of Copenhagen, Bang & Olufsen Medicom gathered a number of leading experts and stakeholders to discuss patient compliance at Copenhagen Compliance & Concordance Conference (CCCC) on May 30.

The conference was a great success and provided a dedicated forum for discussing the reasons for non-compliance and its implications, as well as how to create better solutions for the future.

“Compliance is a topic with great implications for the national economy and of course – and even more important – for patient safety and quality of life,” stated the Danish Minister of Health and Prevention. He was followed by Brian Haynes, professor at McMaster University in Canada and author of the Cochrane Review on adherence, who continued: “Studies on patient compliance interventions show few positive results in improving adherence and clinical outcome.”

Program
Welcome Address and the Danish Compliance of Medicine Research Fund by Jakob Axel Nielsen, Danish Minister of Health and Prevention.

The Cochrane Review on Adherence, Interventions and Results by Brian Haynes,  Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Canada.

Compliance and Concordance from a Patient Perspective by Jim Kierans, Member, The Danish Diabetes Association.

Understanding Patients’ Perspectives of Medication: Implications for Interventions by Rob Horne, Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of London, United Kingdom.

The Pharmaceutical Industry Perspective by Alejandra Mørk, CEO, Klifo, Denmark.

Improving Adherence with Medication in the Chronically Ill: A Novel Path to Enhance Long Term Successful Outcome by Sabina De Geest, Professor of Nursing, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Concordance – A Concept in Real Life by Hanne Herborg, Director of R&D, Pharmakon, Denmark.

Download an extract of the presentations here.

If you would like to have access to the complete presentations or if you would like to know more about our compliance initiatives and solutions, please contact Peter Ravn, VP of Compliance Solutions, at pwr@medicomnordic.com or +45 61 20 05 04.