A literature review to investigate the link between psychosocial characteristics and treatment adherence in cancer patients
Adherence to medication has been recognized as a key issue in health outcomes and efforts to improve patients’ adherence are being made by the pharmaceutical industry, experts, and government bodies alike. This paper presents a review of these issues according to previous descriptive findings. Relev...
Main Authors: | Paraskevi Theofilou, Helen Panagiotaki |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2012-06-01
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Series: | Oncology Reviews |
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Online Access: | http://www.oncologyreviews.org/index.php/or/article/view/178 |
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