Effect of personal and cultural beliefs on medication adherence in the elderly

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 191-202

  Chia, Lichun ^a   Schlenk, Elizabeth A ^a   Dunbar Jacob, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; NATURAL PRODUCT; OPIATE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ANALGESIC AGENT ABUSE; ASTHMA; CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA BASE; DRUG COST; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; KNOWLEDGE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRUST; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; GERIATRICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERCEPTION; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33645795986     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 1170229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200623030-00002     Document Type: Review

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