Physician assessments of medication adherence and decisions to intensify medications for patients with uncontrolled blood pressure: Still no better than a coin toss

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Meddings, Jennifer ^a   Kerr, Eve A ^a,b   Heisler, Michele ^a,b   Hofer, Timothy P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Adherence; Diabetes; Hypertension; Quality improvement; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84865304950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-270     Document Type: Article

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