Non compliance or low compliance to prescribed medical regimen is an ever present and complex problem, especially for patients with a chronic illness. This may adversely affect the patient health as it causes complications in form of chronic diseases, formation of resistant infections and persistent psychiatric illness etc .Certain issues and causes of non compliance and methods of improving pa...

Introduction. Nowadays, obesity is considered as a chronic metabolic disease that occurs at any age. The relevance of the study defined by high prevalence obese people objective was psychological assessment level compliance, emotional state, characteristics eating behavior and satisfaction with quality life in patients morbid before after bariatric surgery. Methods materials. included 30 who un...

Clinical experiences with more than 2000 patients using a lowdose high-frequency dosing regimen of human growth hormone are described . Results of a questionnaire revealed subjective positive effects of the treatment, and lower than expected incidences of adverse side effects reported b y others using higher dose regimens. Retrospective analysis of patient laboratory results revealed that this ...

Aim: Helicobacter pylori (HP) are the most common human infectious agent worldwide. Approximately half of the patients remain infected after ‘eradication’ treatment with the triple regimen of a proton pump inhibitor (PPI), amoxicillin (AMO), and clarithromycin (CLA). In this study, this PPI-based triple regimen was compared to a quadruple regimen, including bismuth citrate (BC), a PPI, metronid...

Data extraction Data were extracted on study characteristics, drug regimen, sample size, compliance, mean baseline rating on depression scales, and percentage change at end point. Treatment effects were calculated and weighted in a meta-analysis. 3 different weights were used for each treatment effect to reflect 3 different assumptions about the correlation between baseline and follow up depres...

Although successful iron chelation with deferiprone is associated with significant complications, patient’s compliance with medication regimens is of a high priority. The present study did evaluate the complications and compliance of domestically-manufactured deferiprone combined with desferrioxamine for iron chelation therapy. A total of 32 major beta thalassemic patients with cardiomyopathy w...

he medication regimen of the chronic diseases demands long term drugs administration and following up. It is well known that the treatment failure caused by poor medication adherence leads to frequent re-hospitalizations, poor outcome of the disease and increased health care costs. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), non-adherence to the medical regimen consists a major clinical p...