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It is common clinical experience that there are patients who do not take the drugs prescribed for them. Less is known of the frequency with which this occurs, but a number of studies have indicated that the failure rate may be surprisingly high?up to 50% (Benstead and Theobald, 1952 ; Haler, 1952 ; Mohler et al, 1955 ; Simpson, 1956 ; Dixon et al., 1957 ; Luntz and Austin, 1960). The present study was undertaken to determine the propor tion of psychiatric out-patients who do not take their drugs, and to examine some factors possibly associated with this.
Willcox et al. (Sat,) studied this question.