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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]

Clinical Pharmacology in Drug Development, 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.
Femke Rutters, Petra J M Elders, Caroline B Terwee   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

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, Paul J. Nietert, Thomas C. Hulsey, Bruce W. Hollis, Carol L. Wagner   +4 more
doaj   +4 more sources

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, Rosa Antonucci, Alphonsina Mukurasi, Henry Zepherine, Christiana Nöstlinger   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

The use of pill counts as a facilitator of adherence with antiretroviral therapy in resource limited settings. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Pill counts are often used to measure adherence to ART, but there is little data on how they affect adherence. We previously showed a bivariate relationship between clinicians counting pills and adherence in patients receiving HIV care in Kenya.
Loice Achieng, Helen Musangi, Katherine Billingsley, Sharon Onguit, Edwin Ombegoh, LeeAnn Bryant, Jonathan Mwiindi, Nathaniel Smith, Philip Keiser   +8 more
doaj   +6 more sources

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, Eziah Ika Lubada, Ria Lusiyani, Rahmad Aji Prasetya   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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, Tegibelu Awraris, Alemneh Kabeta Daba, Zelalem Tenaw   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy Assessed by Unannounced Pill Counts Conducted by Telephone [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2007
Unannounced pill counts conducted in patients' homes is a valid objective method for monitoring medication adherence that is unfortunately costly and often impractical. Conducting unannounced pill counts by telephone may be a viable alternative for objectively assessing medication adherence.To test an unannounced pill count assessment of adherence ...
Seth C Kalichman, Christina M Amaral, Denise White   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Feasibility, acceptability, and user perspective of a next-generation wrist-worn receiver and digital pills for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: a pilot study [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry
ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the next-generation wrist-worn receiver (“Reader”) coupled with the ID-Cap digital pill system (DPS) to measure adherence to oral HIV PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis ...
Dhruv Nimbalkar, Dhruv Nimbalkar, G. R. Goodman, G. R. Goodman, G. R. Goodman, J. Hokayem, H. Albrechta, L. Loo, J. S. Lee, J. S. Lee, C. E. Goldfine, C. O’Cleirigh, C. O’Cleirigh, K. Mayer, K. Mayer, P. Alpert, C. Carnes, P. R. Chai, P. R. Chai, P. R. Chai, P. R. Chai   +20 more
doaj   +2 more sources

902. Unreturned Pill Bottles in the 1489 and 1490 Clinical Trials: An Important Measure of Poor Adherence that Is Often Ignored in Pill Count Calculations [PDF]

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2021
Abstract Background Adherence to antiretroviral therapy is important for HIV suppression. In clinical trials, adherence is commonly measured by pill count; limitations are that unreturned pills may not have been taken and unreturned pill bottle data are omitted.
Hailin Huang, Huang Hailin
exaly   +2 more sources

The persistent benefits of decreasing default pill counts for postoperative narcotic prescriptions.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundIn 2017, a university-based academic healthcare system changed the opioid default pill count from 30 to 12 pills. Modifying the electronic default pill count influences short-term clinician prescribing practices.
Nathan Coppersmith, Joshua Sznol, Andrew Esposito, Emily Flom, Alexander Chiu, Peter Yoo   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources