We previously developed a HyperText-based program, MacAdvice, to efficiently prepare compliance-instruction sheets for prescribed drugs. In this study, we made a questionnaire survey which was given to both nurses and in-patients to objectively evaluate the program. The results showed that almost all nurses and patients found the instruction-sheets produced by MacAdvice to be useful, and that 91% of the patients became more concerned with their drugs after receiving the instruction sheets together with oral guidance. Moreover, we also observed a marked improvement in the patients' drug compliance after we started to use the MacAdvice program.
