Medication adherence in successful kidney transplant recipients

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-172

  Ruppar, Todd M ^a   Russell, Cynthia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HABIT; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; REMINDER SYSTEM; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HABITS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REMINDER SYSTEMS; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 70349229426     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152692480901900211     Document Type: Article

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