Association of adherence measured by self-reported pill count with achieved blood pressure level in hypertension patients: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Clinical Hypertension, 2022 Background Medication adherence plays an essential role in controlling blood pressure to reduce morbidity and mortality of hypertension disease. Thus, this study aimed to determine the association of medication adherence measured by self-reported pill ...
Iin Ernawati +3 more
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Validation of an Announced Telephone Pill Count Compared to a Home-Visit Pill Count in People With Type 2 Diabetes or Cardiovascular Disease. [PDF]
Clin Pharmacol Drug Dev, 2023 AbstractWe aimed to assess the validity of an announced telephone pill count in people with type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease by comparing this method to a home‐visit pill count. We also assessed whether a second telephone pill count improved accuracy.
Langendoen-Gort M +5 more
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Adherence to antiretroviral treatment among children and adolescents in Tanzania: Comparison between pill count and viral load outcomes in a rural context of Mwanza region. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Background and objectivesAdherence to antiretroviral treatment is a key challenge for paediatric HIV care. Among children and adolescents living with HIV, lower levels of adherence have been reported compared to adults.
Giulia Martelli +4 more
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Analyzing Adherence to Prenatal Supplement: Does Pill Count Measure Up? [PDF]
International Journal of Endocrinology, 2010 Objective. To determine if adherence as measured by pill count would show a significant association with serum-based measures of adherence. Methods. Data were obtained from a prenatal vitamin D supplementation trial where subjects were stratified by race
Kristie E. Appelgren +4 more
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Compliance with iron folic acid and associated factors among pregnant women through pill count in Hawassa city, South Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study [PDF]
Reproductive Health, 2019 Background Iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy is a public health problem across the globe that adversely affects maternal and perinatal outcome. World Health Organization recommends that universal iron folic acid supplementation of pregnant women ...
Zemenu Yohannes Kassa +3 more
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Psychosocial predictors of non-adherence and treatment failure in a large scale multi-national trial of antiretroviral therapy for HIV: data from the ACTG A5175/PEARLS trial. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 BACKGROUND:PEARLS, a large scale trial of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV (n = 1,571, 9 countries, 4 continents), found that a once-daily protease inhibitor (PI) based regimen (ATV+DDI+FTC), but not a once-daily non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase ...
Steven A Safren +19 more
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Evaluation of medication adherence methods in the treatment of malaria in Rwandan infants [PDF]
Malaria Journal, 2010 Objectives To compare three methods for evaluating treatment adherence in a 7-day controlled treatment period for malaria in children in Rwanda. Methods Fifty-six children (< 5 years) with malaria were recruited at the University Hospital of Butare ...
Stichele Robert +7 more
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Synergistic treatment of sodium propionate and Sishen Pill for diarrhea mice with kidney-yang deficiency syndrome [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection MicrobiologyObjectiveThis study aimed to investigate the therapeutic effects of sodium propionate in combination with Sishen Pill in the treatment of diarrhea with kidney-yang deficiency syndrome in mice, with a focus on its influence on intestinal microbiota ...
Meifang Guo, Jiaxin Di, Zhijun Lei
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The Study in Outpatient Medicine using Nudges to Improve Sleep (SOMNUS): study protocol for an 18-month factorial, cluster-randomized trial to increase guideline-concordant treatment of insomnia in primary care [PDF]
TrialsBackground Guidelines support cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) as the first-line treatment for chronic insomnia. However, the most widely prescribed treatments are pharmacological sedatives referred to as “Z-drugs,” which are not ...
Jonathan N. Cloughesy +14 more
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Toward Opioid-Free Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Study of a Targeted Opioid Reduction Program in 229 Patients [PDF]
Arthroplasty TodayBackground: Prescription opioids leftover following arthroplasty surgery pose risks to patients and communitys. The purpose of this study was to capture opioid utilization patterns following primary total hip arthroplasty before and after a targeted ...
Mary L. Noyes, BA +5 more
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