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Drug compliance in elderly patients
 — can it be improved?
Author(s)M Dornan, H Wynne
Journal titleReviews in Clinical Gerontology, vol 8, no 2, May 1998
Pagespp 183-188
KeywordsDrugs.
AnnotationPoor compliance is a major and preventable cause of hospital admissions, lengthy hospital stay and drug-related disease in older people. The cost-effectiveness of drug therapy is reduced by poor compliance, not only by cost of wasted medicines, but also by costs of added care and morbidity. The authors review a new model which recognises treatment as a shared activity; and they examine the literature on compliance from the patient's perspective, and on compliance-improving programmes. A review of compliance aids concluded that compliance would be improved through better education of consumers and prescribers, and by technological advances in compliance devices, drug packaging and drug development. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-980702003 A
ClassmarkLLD

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