Survey of patient and physician assessment of a compliance reminder device in the treatment of hypertension

This article describes the development and importance of devices to improve patient compliance and presents information on why some devices have been accepted very positively by patients and health care professionals.  Some of these reminder tools include mechanical devices like pill boxes, calendars printed on the blister cards and wallet packs that hold a strip of medication, electronic reminders like wristwatches programmable to dosing schedules, reminder software for personal computers or personal digital assistant. The authors conclude that the majority of the patients accept well the use of devices to improve their compliance and a majority of respondents expressed the desire to continue its use.

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