11.   Critics counter that the direct-to-consumer campaigns can be misleading, and that they can confuse patients who face a complex treatment regimen.

12.   Even now, doctors are revising treatment regimens and mortality estimates based on the experiences of anthrax patients in the recent outbreaks in the United States.

13.   Health experts blame drug resistance on failure by patients to complete the six-month treatment regimen.

14.   If the stigmas attached to AIDS are not removed, he said, patients may be less likely to adhere to the strict treatment regimens.

15.   Montaner said treatment regimens and schedules must be made easier and more tolerable for patients to protect the potency of existing drugs.

16.   Mrs. Rohatyn, whose doctors have told her that the treatment regimen may tire her, is determined to go ahead with her library and charity work.

17.   New drugs in the pipeline are expected to simplify treatment regimens by decreasing the number of times pills must be taken each day.

18.   Nurses caring for patients in experimental treatment regimens must be familiar with the protocols, or treatment blueprints.

19.   Patients often have difficulty sticking to their treatment regimen.

20.   Patients become sicker because they fail to stick to treatment regimens that they do not understand.