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A MEDICATION MONITOR AND FLUORESCEIN TECHNIQUE DESIGNED TO STUDY MEDICATION BEHAVIOUR
Author(s) -
NORELL S. E.,
GRANSTRÖM P.A.,
WASSEN R.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1980.tb05747.x
Subject(s) - fluorescein , medicine , pilocarpine , glaucoma , ophthalmology , eye drop , open angle glaucoma , glaucoma medication , optometry , anesthesia , optics , epilepsy , physics , psychiatry , fluorescence
Methods were developed to study medication behaviour, in order to obtain accurate and detailed information on the patterns of drug‐taking in medication with eye drops. A medication monitor was designed, which recorded the date and hour each time the medication bottle was opened. A fluorescein technique was designed to study the ability of patients to administer the eye drops into the conjunctival sac. Some problems in the measurement of medication behaviour are discussed. In a group of patients with open‐angle glaucoma, for whom pilocarpine eye drops three times daily had been prescribed, 18% of dose intervals had a duration of 12 h or more and 11% had a duration of 4 h or less. Fluorescein tests indicated that the patients were usually able to administer the eye drops correctly.