Open AccessMind the gap: how compliance aids increase the distance between patients and their medicines
Author(s) -
NUNNEY J.,
RAYNOR D. K.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of pharmacy practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 2042-7174
pISSN - 0961-7671
DOI - 10.1111/j.2042-7174.2001.tb01106.x
Subject(s) - medicine , compliance (psychology) , intensive care medicine , family medicine , social psychology , psychology
Focal points □ Compliance aids are widely used despite little evidence for their effectiveness □ As well as the benefits not being proven, there may be negative effects □ Pharmacists supplying compliance aids and their patients were interviewed about how repeat prescriptions were ordered and compliance aids collected; patients were also asked if they could name each of the medicines in the device □ In almost half of cases, delivery was by an unqualified person □ Nearly two‐thirds of patients did not know the names of any of their medicines □ Compliance aid use may contribute to increasing patients' remoteness from their medicines and delivery methods may mean that pharmacists are unable to monitor changes in the needs of this particularly vulnerable group of patients