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Rheumatology 2000; 39: 448-449
© 2000 British Society for Rheumatology

Letters to the Editor

Use of an electronic monitoring aid to investigate the medication pattern of analgesics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs prescribed for osteoarthritis

S. PUNCHAK, L. I. GOODYER1, and F. MISKELLY2

Department of Pharmacy, University of Malaysia, Malaysia,
1 Department of Pharmacy, King's College London and
2 Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK

SIR, If a patient with arthritis continues to suffer pain, the possibility of deviation from the prescribed dosing regimen should be taken into account when reviewing medication. Simple measures of assessing compliance such as tablet counts only indicate the total number of tablets consumed over a period of time and not the frequency or pattern with which medication was taken. Electronic medication monitoring aids (EMMA) provide more detailed information on medication patterns for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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