First things first: Difficulty with current medications is associated with patient willingness to add new ones

Patient

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 221-231

  Zikmund Fisher, Brain J ^a,b,c   Hofer, Timothy P ^a,b   Klamerous, Mandi L ^a   Kerr, Eva A ^a,b  

^a VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77953433256     PISSN: 11781653     EISSN: 11781661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11313850-000000000-00000     Document Type: Article

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