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How Accurate Are Electronic Monitoring Devices? A Laboratory Study Testing Two Devices to Measure Medication Adherence
- Source :
- Sensors, Vol 10, Iss 3, Pp 1652-1660 (2010)
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2010.
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Abstract
- In a prospective descriptive laboratory study, 25 Helping Handâ„¢ (HH) (10 without and 15 with reminder system) and 50 Medication Event Monitoring Systems (MEMS) (25 with 18-month and 25 with 2-year battery life) were manipulated twice daily following a predefined protocol during 3 consecutive weeks. Accuracy was determined using the fixed manipulation scheme as the reference. Perfect functioning (i.e., total absence of missing registrations and/or overregistrations) was observed in 70% of the HH without, 87% of the HH with reminder, 20% MEMS with 18 months, and 100% with 2-year battery life respectively.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14248220
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Sensors
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.373b0ffd53cf42bd967afc2e04c72245
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s100301652