George
I think even earlier work by Parrish showed that non-compliance varies accoding
to the treatment prescribed. In those days as much as 40% of antidepressant
scripts went uncashed. (Hopefully the SSRIs are improving on this.) Sackett
told me that he had done a study which showed that, before prescribing
anything, it was worth asking the patient
" Will you take this treatment" Commonsense or another triumph for EBM?
George Myszka wrote:
> In article <[log in to unmask]>, Graham Ride
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >I heard that in the USA as many as 25% of prescriptions go un-fulfilled, I
> >wondered what the rate is here, if known at all.
>
> Seems to vary from about 6% (Rashid BMJ '82) to 14.5% (Dowell & Hudson
> Family Practice '97) for total non-compliance. Rashid found 20% not
> redeemed within 1 month. Partial compliance is about 60% both for short
> term curative and long term prophylactic Rx.
>
> Regards
>
> George
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