How patients take malaria treatment: a systematic review of the literature on adherence to antimalarial drugs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High levels of patient adherence to antimalarial treatment are important in ensuring drug effectiveness. To achieve this goal, it is important to understand levels of patient adherence, and the range of study designs and methodological challenges involved in measuring adherence and interpreting results. Since antimalarial adherence was reviewed in 2004, there has been a major expansion in the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) in the public sector, as well as initiatives to make them more widely accessible through community health workers and private retailers. These changes and the large number of recent adherence studies raise the need for an updated review on this topic.

Objective

We conducted a systematic review of studies reporting quantita

SUBMITTER: Bruxvoort K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3896377 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature