Review: Fixed-dose drug combinations improve medication compliance compared with free-drug regimens: Commentary

Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-

  Messerli, F H ^a   Bergmann, Jean François ^b  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RISK REDUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 39049114981     PISSN: 13565524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ebm.13.1.18     Document Type: Short Survey

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