Pill Properties that Cause Dysphagia and Treatment Failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pills (tablets and capsules) are widely used to administer prescription drugs or to take supplements such as vitamins. Unfortunately, little is known about how much effort it takes Americans to swallow these various pills. More specifically, it is not known to what extent hard-to-swallow pills might affect treatment outcomes (eg, interfering with adherence to prescribed medications or causing clinical complications). It is also unclear which properties (eg, size, shape, or surface texture) Americans prefer or reject for their pills. To learn more about these issues, we interviewed a small group of individuals.

Methods

We invited individuals in waiting rooms of our tertiary health care center to participate in structured interviews about their pill-taking habits an

SUBMITTER: Fields J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4589822 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature