A structured questionnaire to assess patient compliance and beliefs about medicines taking into account the ordered categorical structure of data

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 713-723

  Bondesson, Åsa ^a,b   Hellström, Lina ^b,c   Eriksson, Tommy ^a   Höglund, Peter ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Medication error; Ordinal scale; Patient compliance; Pharmaceutical care; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG MONITORING; MEDICATION ERROR; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN;

EID: 68349088124     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.01088.x     Document Type: Article

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