Compliance declines between clinic visits
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 150 (7) , 1509-1510
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.150.7.1509
Abstract
Adherence to prescribed drug dosing regimens declined substantially during the interval between clinic visits and drug level tests. Using microelectronic monitors to observe pill-taking habits, 20 patients averaged 88% compliance before and 86% compliance after the visit, but this dropped to 67% compliance a month later. These data indicate that spot drug levels do not represent long-term "steady-state" drug serum concentrations.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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