Journal Top Ten, Columns-Drugs & Supplements, May 2005

TITLE: 'Patient adherence to prescribed antimicrobial drug dosing regimens'

SUMMARY: Central to the estimation of a patient's adherence to a prescribed drug regimen is a reliably compiled drug dosing history. Electronic monitoring methods have emerged as the virtual 'gold standard' for compiling drug dosing histories in ambulatory patients. Reliably compiled drug dosing histories are consistently downwardly skewed, with varying degrees of under-dosing.

AUTHORS: Vrijens B, Urquhart J.

JOURNAL: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2005 May;55(5):616-27.

TITLE: 'Safety profile of raloxifene as used …