BACKGROUND In order to evaluate the factors of compliance with a lipid lowering therapy, a prospective observational study of patients with hypercholesterolemia using rosuvastatin was carried out. METHODS A total of 2,607 patients who were newly prescribed rosuvastatin were enrolled from 32 family physicians in Korea from March 2009 to December 2009. Of them, 301 patients were excluded due to...

OBJECTIVE to investigate the evidence available in the literature on non-adherence to immunosuppressive therapy among patients undergoing liver transplantation. METHOD integrative literature review, including research whose sample consisted of patients aged over 18 years undergoing liver transplantation. It excluded those containing patients undergoing multiple organ transplants. For the sele...

Objective This paper aims to explore specific effects of out-of-hospital continuing nursing on schizophrenia patients' health rehabilitation and quality of life, and further improve application and popularization of out-of-hospital continuing nursing. Methods The 180 schizophrenia patients discharged from our hospital from March 2014 to March 2016 were selected as the subjects. The patients w...

Background: Medication errors in anesthesia present patient safety challenges and research has shown that proper medication labeling may reduce error rates. Bar code-assisted syringe labeling may improve labeling accuracy and compliance. The purpose of this study is to compare the time required to label syringes using the manual method with the time required using bar code-assisted syringe labe...

As the numbers of the elderly people is increasing rapidly, it is important and urgent to design appropriate products for older adults. Because of physical and mental function decline, the elderly need to take multiple drugs, they often occurring medication non-compliance behavior, seriously affecting the health of the elderly. Forget to take medicine is one the most frequency problem, so there...

BACKGROUND Hypertension is common in patients with type 2 diabetes, affecting up to 60% of patients. The Korean Diabetes Association performed a nationwide survey about prevalence, awareness and control of hypertension among diabetic Koreans. METHODS The current survey included 3,859 diabetic patients recruited from 43 hospitals in Korea. Age, gender, height, weight and blood pressure (BP) we...

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...

Measurement of patient compliance is essential if management of low compliance is to be performed efficiently. We assessed the value of several easily obtained clinical assessments compared to quantitative pill counts among 134 newly treated hypertensive male steelworkers during the first 6 months of their treatment with antihypertensive medication. Patient's self-reports obtained on structured...