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Does Intervention by a Nurse Improve Medication Compliance?
Reynold Spector, MD;
Patricia McGrath, RN;
Norman Uretsky, PhD;
Ronald Newman;
Phin Cohen, MD
Arch Intern Med. 1978;138(1):36-40.
Abstract
A random sample of patients taking two or more drugs, at least one of which was digoxin or methyldopa, was drawn from a medical clinic population. After giving informed consent, the patients were randomized into control and experimental groups. The experimental group was seen by a specially prepared nurse interventionist who attempted to improve medication compliance. The levels of the drugs in the blood were taken as indicators of medication compliance. Our results document that patients exposed to nurse intervention were more compliant than the general clinic population, but were not more compliant than a nonintervention control group. Problems encountered in the collection and interpretation of compliance study data were identified and discussed.
(Arch Intern Med 138:36-40, 1978)
Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Medicine (Dr Spector) and Neuropathology (Dr Uretsky), Harvard Medical School; Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology program in the health sciences (Mr Newman); and the Medical Clinic, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (Dr Cohen and Ms McGrath), Boston.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 20, 1977.
Reprint requests to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (Dr Spector).
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