Dosette box
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Dosette boxes (pill organisers, calender blister packs) are individualised box containing medications organised into compartments by day and time, so as to simplify the taking of medications, especially in patients with polypharmacy.
There is very little good evidence for their overall effectiveness with simple regimes and they have greatest resource effectiveness when medication regimes are stable. They increase compliance with:
- Geriatric (elderly) patients in a number of small studies[1][2][3]
- Multidrug regimes in malaria[4]
- Sexually transmitted diseases[5]
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References
- ↑ Wong BS, Norman DC. Evaluation of a novel medication aid, the calendar blister-pak, and its effect on drug compliance in a geriatric outpatient clinic. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1987;35(1):21-6.
- ↑ Ware GJ, Holford NH, Davison JG, Harris RG. Unit dose calendar packaging and elderly patient compliance. The New Zealand medical journal 1991;104(924):495-7.
- ↑ Murray MD, Birt JA, Manatunga AK, Darnell JC. Medication compliance in elderly outpatients using twice-daily dosing and unit-of-use packaging. The Annals of pharmacotherapy 1993;27(5):616-21.
- ↑ Shwe T, Lwin M, Aung S. Influence of blister packaging on the efficacy of artesunate + mefloquine over artesunate alone in community-based treatment of non-severe falciparum malaria in Myanmar. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1998;76 Suppl 1:35-41.
- ↑ Wright JM, Htun Y, Leong MG, Forman P, Ballard RC. Evaluation of the use of calendar blister packaging on patient compliance with STD syndromic treatment regimens. Sexually transmitted diseases 1999;26(10):556-63.
- ↑ Revankar CR, Gupta N, Sorensen BH, Naik SS. Further observations on MDT blister-calendar packs in vertical leprosy eradication programmes--a multicentre study (phase II) Leprosy review 1993;64(3):250-4.
- ↑ Wright JM, Htun Y, Leong MG, Forman P, Ballard RC. Evaluation of the use of calendar blister packaging on patient compliance with STD syndromic treatment regimens. Sexually transmitted diseases 1999;26(10):556-63.
