What determines the duration of patient medication compliance in patients with chronic disease: Are we looking in the wrong place?

Southern Med Review

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 50-54

  Sencan, Nazli Muzeyyen ^a   Wertheimer, Albert ^b   Levine, Chadd Brandon ^c  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

^c Community Pharmacist ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Medicines compliance; Medicines concordance; Patients; Physicians

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL RECORD; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHARMACY; PILOT STUDY; PRESCRIPTION; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 83055172094     PISSN: 11742704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5655/smr.v4i2.1008     Document Type: Article

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