Effect of a system-oriented intervention on compliance problems in schizophrenia: a pragmatic controlled trial.

Background. Numerous studies have been conducted with a view to developing strategies for improvement of medical compliance in patients with schizophrenia. All of the studies conducted so far have had an individual approach to compliance based on the assumption that noncompliance is determined individually due to inappropriate behavior in the patient.

A follow-up study of the occurrence and consequences of HbA1c measurements in an unselected cohort of non-pharmacologically treated patients with Type 2 diabetes.

Objectives: To describe the occurrence of HbA1c measurements among non-pharmacologically treated diabetes patients, and to evaluate whether poor blood glucose regulation (HbA1c >8%) prompted intensification of treatment.

Method: Data from the National Health Service Registry, the Regional Laboratory Database and the Danish National Hospital Registry were collected from 2002 to 2004 to identify and describe all Type 2 diabetic patients above 40 years of age in a background population of nearly 660,000 citizens in Aarhus County, corresponding to 12% of the total Danish population.

Results: A total of 1989 had at least one HbA1c measurement, whereas 484 (20%) had no HbA1c measurement at all in 2003.