Randomised clinical trial of strategies for improving medication compliance in primary hypertension.
Lancet, 1975/5/31;1(7918):1205-7.
Sackett DL, Haynes RB, Gibson ES, Hackett BC, Taylor DW, Roberts RS, Johnson AL
PMID: 48832
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Abstract
230 Canadian steelworkers with hypertension took part in a randomised trial to see if compliance with antihypertensive drug regimens could be improved. For care and follow-up these men were randomly allocated to see either their own family doctors outside working-hours or industrial physicians during work shifts; the same men were randomly allocated to receive or not receive an educational programme aimed at instructing them about hypertension and its treatment. Surprisingly, the convenience of follow-up at work had no effect upon these men's compliance with antihypertensive drug regimens. Similarly, although men receiving health education learned a lot about hypertension, they were not more likely to take their medicine.
MeSH terms
Antihypertensive Agents; Attitude to Health; Clinical Trials as Topic; Community Participation; Follow-Up Studies; Health Education; Humans; Hypertension; Male; Metallurgy; Occupational Medicine; Ontario; Patient Compliance; Patient Dropouts
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