Rurality and other factors associated with adherence to immunosuppressant medications in community-dwelling solid-organ transplant recipients

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 228-239

  Sankaranarayanan, Jayashri ^a   Collier, Dean ^a   Furasek, Anne ^a   Reardon, Tom ^b   Smith, Lynette M ^b   McCartan, Megan ^a   Langnas, Alan N ^c  

^a NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult solid organ transplant recipients; Community dwelling; Factors; Immunosuppressant adherence; Rurality

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHARMACY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; ODDS RATIO; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860838213     PISSN: 15517411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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