Authors' response

摘要

This is in response to the letter by Connor and Fraser regarding our article, 'Generic medications in ophthalmology'. We are extremely glad that our article sparked interest, and we feel the topic is important as it has been shown that poor adherence to ocular hypotensive medications leads to disease progression. The Glaucoma Adherence and Persistency Study evaluated drug compliance in patients with glaucoma and found that many fail to use topical medications as prescribed, and thus additional barriers to medication use further compound the problem