The incidence of nonadherence after organ transplant: Ensuring that our efforts at counting really count

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1736-1740

  Dew, Mary Amanda ^a,b   DiMartini, Andrea F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONSULTATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; TRANSPLANTS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 33845499288     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20854     Document Type: Editorial

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