Defining medication adherence in individual patients
Alan Morrison, Melissa E Stauffer, Anna S Kaufman ScribCo, Effort, PA, USA Background: The classification of patients as adherent or non-adherent to medications is typically based on an arbitrary threshold for the proportion of prescribed doses taken. Here, we define a patient as pharmacokinetical...
Main Authors: | Morrison A, Stauffer ME, Kaufman AS |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2015-07-01
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Series: | Patient Preference and Adherence |
Online Access: | http://www.dovepress.com/defining-medication-adherence-in-individual-patients-peer-reviewed-article-PPA |
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