Response to Comment on O’Connor et al. Randomized Trial of Telephone Outreach to Improve Medication Adherence and Metabolic Control in Adults With Diabetes. Diabetes Care 2014;37:3317–3324

We appreciate the thoughtful comments from Blackberry et al. (1) on our article (2) and the insights they provide based on their efforts to improve medication adherence and timely treatment intensification in adults with diabetes (3). Although our study (2) and the study of Blackberry et al. (3) failed to improve medication adherence rates, another recent report by Derose et al. (4) showed that an automated telephone call from a computer to patients …