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.1990.00390190143023
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. (Arch Intern Med. 1990;150:1509-1510)This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: