The Consent and Prescription Compliance (COPRECO) study: Does obtaining consent in the emergency department affect study results in a telephone follow-up study of medication compliance?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 932-938

  Campbell, Samuel G ^a,b   McCarvill, Erin M ^b   Magee, Kirk D ^a,b   Cajee, Ismail ^a,b   Crawford, Megan ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Informed consent; Medication compliance; Noncompliance; Telephone study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECONSULTATION;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEPHONE;

EID: 56849103881     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00234.x     Document Type: Article

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