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The drug defaulter
Author(s) -
Blackwell Barry
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt1972135part2841
Subject(s) - medicine , rheumatoid arthritis , anemia , intensive care medicine , tuberculosis , drug , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , clinical practice , physical therapy , psychiatry , pathology
There have been over 50 studies on patients who fail to take their medications “as directed.” The patients in these studies usually required chronic maintenance therapy for conditions including tuberculosis, schizophrenia, anemia, rheumatoid arthritis, and other diseases seen in general practice. Attention has also been paid to the special problems posed by geriatric patients and by children who depend for medication on their parents.