Medication Event Monitoring System
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Medication Event Monitoring System
A system with an electronic “umbilical cord” that records the dates and times of medication bottle cap openings as a means of ensuring adherence to therapeutic regimens.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
Medication Event Monitoring System
Clinical therapeutics A system with an electronic umbilical cord that records the dates and times of bottle cap openings as a means of ensuring adherence to therapeutic regimens. See Patient compliance.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
medication event monitoring system
A method of evaluating a patient's compliance with a medication regimen that is tied to microprocessors that are built into the medicine bottle or pill dispenser.
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