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9763719

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-11-3
pubmed:abstractText
A study conducted in 1994 showed that the use of blister packs containing antimalarial drugs significantly increased patients' compliance, compared with traditional means of dispensing drugs in a paper envelope. The present study assessed patients' compliance and compared the difference between 3-day chloroquine and 8-day primaquine courses of treatment for vivax malaria. The level of real compliance was determined by making the drugs with phenobarbital, and measuring its level in the blood following treatment. The results show that blister packaging significantly improved patients' compliance (p < 0.001) over traditional means of dispensing antimalarial drugs; there was no difference in treatment compliance between 3-day and 8-day courses when the drugs were in blister packs. However, with ordinary packaging the treatment compliance rate for an 8-day course was significantly less than for a 3-day course (P < 0.05).
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0042-9686
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
76 Suppl 1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
21-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
The effect of drug packaging on patients' compliance with treatment for Plasmodium vivax malaria in China.
pubmed:affiliation
Health and Epidemic Prevention Station, Changsha, Hunan, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Multicenter Study