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Rickey L. Williams, MD; Lois A. Maiman, PhD; David N. Broadbent, MD; David Kotok, MD; Richard A. Lawrence, MD; Lynn A. Longfield, MD; Albert H. Mangold, MD; Sanford J. Mayer, MD; Keith R. Powell, MD; James W. Sayre, MD; Stephen Webb, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1986;140(3):216-220.

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Patient compliance with prescribed medication regimens is a major problem in the clinical practice of medicine.¹ Poor compliance interferes with critical aspects of pediatric care delivery, as at least one of every three patients fails to follow the physician's recommendations. Failure to give children antibiotics as prescribed for acute otitis media could be associated with a persistence of the disease and subsequent problems, such as exposure to additional antibiotics, hearing loss, and potential speech and language difficulties.

Research^2-4 has documented disturbingly low levels of compliance with antibiotic therapies for children being treated for acute infections (Table 1). As summarized in Table 2, relatively few studies^5-10 have examined methods to improve compliance in the treatment of this illness.

Finney and co-workers¹⁰ reported that parents who received an intervention program, which consisted of an educational handout, a self-monitoring calendar reminder, and a telephone reminder on the fourth or . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester (NY) School of Medicine and Dentistry (Drs Williams, Maiman, and Powell); the Genessee Health Service, Rochester, NY (Drs Broadbent, Kotok, Lawrence, Mangold, and Webb); and the Family Health Associates, Rochester, NY (Drs Longfield, Mayer, and Sayre). Dr Williams is now with the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson. Dr Longfield is now with Pediatric Consultants, Albuquerque.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 30, 1985.

Reprint requests to Department of Pediatrics, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ 85724 (Dr Williams).

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