Measurement of Medication Compliance in a Clinical Setting
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 139 (6), 635-638
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1979.03630430017008
Abstract
Medication compliance is an important medical process, and useful methods are needed to measure compliance in clinical practice. Interview, pill count, and serum digoxin concentration (SDC) were compared in 173 patients prescribed digoxin to determine (1) feasibility, ease, timeliness; (2) reasons for noncompliance; and (3) validity of interview and pill count compared with SDC. All patients were interviewed; among 33 (19%) not taking their medication correctly, nine (5%) did not know how. Pill counts were possible for 68 patients (39%). One patient had a correct pill count. Steady-state SDCs were obtained for 143 patients (83%), but were not available during patients' visits. The SDCs for 25 patients were Arch Intern Med 139:635-638, 1979)Keywords
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