Language-concordant automated telephone self-management is a valid scalable way to assess medication adherence in linguistically diverse populations

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This is a measurement claim: it concerns how validly adherence can be assessed via a language-concordant tool (A-0001ArtifactA-0001Initial AI draftLanguage-concordant automated telephone self-management (ATSM, SMARTSteps)To assess patient-reported medication adherence and deliver self-management support to a linguistically diverse, low-income population with diabetes — in each patient's own language — outside of usual clinic visits. Depl…), not the effect of concordance on adherence itself. Validity was modest (significant convergent gradients for 2 of 3 medication classes).