Pill Identification Test for Assessing Compliance with Therapy

Purpose: To evaluate a patient's familiarity with the appearance of pills in a drug regimen as a measure of drug therapy compliance.

Info MyLikes MyPaths

Evaluation

Are you evaluating a patient taking multiple drugs for drug regimen compliance?

Yes

Number of different pills in drug regimen

Number of pills in regimen correctly identified

Number of pills in regimen where a 'twin' pill was identified

Number of pills in regimen not included

Number of pills not in regimen identified as being taken

Results

Please fill out required fields.

Results Interpretation and Description References Next Steps

Data complete?

Evaluation appropriate?

Pills identification test score

The person's familiarity with the drug regimen he or she is supposedly taking is

Is further questioning on compliance indicated?

Caution: A qualified health practitioner should verify all results.
Keep patient data confidential and comply with all legal requirements.

Please visit our website Medicalalgorithms.com for Description and Interpretation and further algorithms you may want to consider in the next steps of your evaluation. All information should be verified by a qualified health professional, and all use is subject to Medicalalgorithms.com Terms and Conditions. © Copyright Medicalalgorithms.com Limited

Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Diagnosis

Risk Factors
Clinical Diagnosis, Including Family History For Genetics
Criteria For Diagnosis
- Model of Chisholm-Burns et al for Predicting the Adherence Rate of a Renal Transplant Recipient to Immunosuppressant Therapy
Severity, Prognosis, Stage
- Rating of Medication Influences (ROMI) Scale for Compliance with Drug Therapy in Schizophrenia

Therapy

Options
- Treatment Fatigue
Selection
Pharmacogenetics
- Risk of Noncompliance in Use of Medications
Failure Handling And Therapy Escalation

Monitoring

Response To Therapy
Adverse Effects
Compliance/adherence
Disease Progression
- Predictors for Tamoxifen Discontinuation with Estrogen-Receptor Positive Breast Cancer
Failure Handling (loss To Followup, Etc)
- Predictors for Tamoxifen Discontinuation with Estrogen-Receptor Positive Breast Cancer

Specialty

Toxicology
Emergency Medicine
Critical Care

Objective

other testing
compliance/adherence

ICD-10

Info

Purpose: To evaluate a patient's familiarity with the appearance of pills in a drug regimen as a measure of drug therapy compliance.

Specialty: Toxicology, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care

Objective: other testing, compliance/adherence

ICD-10: ,

Save Data

Identifier

Enter 1 to 5 characters as ID

Email

Your registered email

Other

Email to

Please separate multiple email IDs with comma (,)

Consult Report

Identifier

Enter 1 to 5 characters as ID

Add to MyPath

Select path

New path