Comparison of Patients' Compliance With Prescribed Oral and Inhaled Asthma Medications

Noncompliance with medications is one of the most serious problems facing health care today. However, methods to measure compliance have many limitations.To measure specific drug compliance and dosing frequency of two asthma medications, we used medical records data and pharmacy claims data from 276 patients who had concurrent prescriptions for inhaled anti-inflammatory agents and oral theophylline. Patients were randomly selected from the...