BACKGROUND The effect of ongoing illicit drug use on HIV treatment remains controversial, especially in countries where access to HIV treatment for active injection drug users (IDUs) is limited because of presumed non-adherence. We sought to investigate the influence of drug use patterns on adherence to antiretroviral therapy and virological suppression among IDUs. METHODS Using generalized e...

Thunander Sundbom, L. 2017. The influence of gender and depression on drug utilization. Pharmacoepidemiological research in Sweden. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Pharmacy 238. 67 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0088-7. Background Drug use has increased over recent decades, and is especially great among women and among p...

UNLABELLED Deterioration of the medication adherence for elderly could result in wasteful medical expenditure in a long-term span as well as aggravating the patient's medical condition. OBJECTIVE This study surveyed the effect of one-dose package medication made up by a pharmacist on the patient's behavior towards medication, what is expected to be one of the measures to improve the medicatio...

• Objective: To determine whether interventions such as medication cards, pillboxes, and mailings of mo-­ tivational messages would impact antiretroviral adherence in an inner city HIV clinic. Factors influ-­ encing adherence were also assessed. • Methods: Patients were randomized to an adher-­ ence intervention protocol or to standard of care. Utilizing an adherence measurement tool, Medicatio...

OBJECTIVES The success of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in HIV infection may be influenced by numerous host factors. There is a lack of data presenting a combined assessment of a variety of these parameters for treatment efficacy in clinical routine practice. METHODS Different indices of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) were evaluated prospectively in the context of self-repor...

BACKGROUND Poor adherence to antidepressant therapy is an important barrier to the effective management of major depressive disorder. This study aims to quantify the adherence rate to antidepressant treatment and to determine the pattern of prescriptions of depressed patients in a psychiatric institute in Thailand. METHODS This retrospective study used electronic pharmacy data of outpatients ...