Compliance with hormonal therapy

Compliance with hypertensive therapy.

Compliance With Hypertensive Therapy To the Editor: Halpern et al1 propose studies to evaluate patients’ compliance and persistence with hypertensive therapy. I have been in academic medicine and private practice for 42 years, many spent treating hypertensive patients. In the 1960s and 1970s we had poorly tolerated antihypertensive medications, and that was the most common cause for noncomplian...

Compliance with therapy in hypertensive patients.

OBJECTIVE This study investigated pharmacological compliance in hypertensive patients recruited during a 24-month period at the Hypertension Clinic of the S. Maria Nuova Hospital. METHODS The compliance profile scale was developed in order to classify compliance as sufficient, or poor. Compliance was evaluated according to patients' (1) global cardiovascular risk (hypertensive) and (2) comple...

Promoting compliance with tuberculosis drug therapy.

The recent increase in the notifications of tuberculosis infections has focused the attention of healthcare professionals on reasons for the disease's resurgence. This article describes how directly observed therapy and an enlightened approach to health promotion for groups of people perceived as being at risk, could prevent further increases in incidence.

MDR tuberculosis and non-compliance with therapy.

178 www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 12 March 2012 3 World Health Organization. Towards universal access to diagnosis and treatment of multidrug-resistant and extensively drugresistant tuberculosis by 2015: WHO progress report 2011. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/ publications/2011/9789241501330_eng.pdf (accessed Mar 24, 2011). 4 Upshur R, Singh J, Ford N. Apocalypse or redemption: responding to exten...

Compliance with antimicrobial therapy for buruli ulcer.