Background. Regular clinic attendance for antiretroviral (ARV) drug refills is important for successful clinical outcomes in HIV management. Methods. Clinic attendance for ARV drug refills and medication adherence using a clinic-based pill count in 392 adult patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) in a district hospital in Uganda were prospectively monitored over a 28-week period. Resul...

Adherence to HAART medication regimens is vital to maintaining suppression of HIV, but persons with HIV face many challenges to adhering consistently to HIV medication regimens. This is particularly true for persons who live in geographically-isolated areas or who have significant levels of cognitive compromise. A videophone-based version of Reynolds' HAART CARE (HC) telephone intervention for ...

Pill induced esophagitis is a rare complication mostly seen in patients using tetracycline and its derivatives or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Here we present a 37 years old female patient experiencing pill esophagitis after taking desloratadine without liquid immediately before going to bed. This was the first pill esophagitis case related with desloratadine reported in the literatur...

BACKGROUND Therapeutic adherence of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is poor. It is therefore necessary to determine the magnitude of non-adherence to develop strategies to correct this behaviour. The purpose of this study was to analyse the diagnostic validity of indirect adherence methods. METHODS SAMPLE 195 COPD patients undergoing scheduled inhaled treatment a...

Methods This analysis examined commercially insured patients in the LifeLink claims database. Patients were selected if they had a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS (ICD-9-CM code 042.xx) between 6/1/2006 and 12/31/2008 and received a complete ART regimen defined as 2 nucleoside/ nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) along with a third agent (NNRTI, protease inhibitor, CCR5 antagonist, or int...

Background: The quality of life coronary heart disease (CHD) patients can be improved by increasing patient compliance with treatment and health literacy rates. Over the past decade, mobile (mHealth) has adherence demonstrated strong potential to increase Objectives: Analyse effect “Friends Heart” application on knowledge patients. Methods: A randomised controlled trial (RCT) was conducted. tes...

The fact t,hat among other changes, menstruation involves bleeding from the blood vessels injured at the shedding of the uterine mucosa has directed special interest to the blood changes which attend the phases of menstrual cycles. Demonstrable fall in the platelet count at the time of menstruation (Pfeiffer and ,Hoff, 1929) and the simultaneous lowering of capillary resistance (Henning, 1924) ...

• 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...

A certain pill bottle contains m large pills and n small pills initially, where each large pill is equivalent to two small ones. Each day the patient chooses a pill at random, if a small pill is selected, (s)he eats it; otherwise (s)he breaks the selected pill and eats one half, replacing the other half, which thenceforth is considered to be a small pill. (a) What is the expected number of smal...