Totally interactive patient compliance method

摘要

In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a Medication Compliance Dispenser to help prevent drug abuse by a patient taking medicine which comprises a multicompartment container wherein (a) at least some of the compartments contain individual doses of the medicine and at least some of the compartments contain a placebo; (b) the compartments containing the medicine are known but unknown to the patient; (c) each compartment is labeled with a code to identify the compartment; (d) the container permits random access to each compartment and the dispersing of its contents; and (e) the Dispenser displays a telephone number which the patient must call to learn the code of a compartment which contains the medicine. In another embodiment, the present invention is directed to a Medication Compliance Dispenser to help a patient comply with taking a medicine which comprises a multicompartment container wherein (a) the compartments contain individual doses of the medicine; (b) the container permits sequential access to each compartment and dispensing of its contents; (c) upon a medicine being dispensed from a compartment, at least some of the compartments display a message to the patient to call a telephone number; and (d) the compartments containing the message are known but unknown to the patient; whereupon the timing of the patient's telephone call will signal whether the patient has complied with taking the medicine. This invention is also directed at a method for helping prevent drug abuse by a patient taking medicine and a method for helping a patient comply with taking a medicine in a Totally Interactive Patient Compliance Program.