Compliance with doxycycline therapy for outpatient treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease.
Women discharged from a municipal emergency department with the diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease were surveyed by telephone about their compliance with a standard 10-day regimen of doxycycline. Of the 386 women who completed the survey, 31% reported complete compliance; 28% reported that they did not fill their prescriptions for doxycycline. The most common reasons given for not filling prescriptions were cost, resolution of symptoms, and inconvenience. Forty-one percent reported that they stopped their medication early (average 4.1 +/- 1.4 days). Lack of symptoms, persistence of symptoms, and side effects were the major reasons given for the discontinuation of medications.
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Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003625:Data Collection; D004318:Doxycycline / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance; D000292:Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / Q000188:drug therapy*
D004318:Doxycycline