The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7229 p878
21/28 December 2002

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Compliance studies needed

Researchers have called for more studies of innovative approaches to help patients use their medicines (JAMA 2002;288:2868).

They reviewed published randomised controlled trials of interventions designed to improve compliance and found that most interventions were complex and not predictably effective.