Are Australian clinicians monitoring medication adherence in hematological cancer survivors? Two cross-sectional studies

Experimental Hematology and Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lynagh, Marita C ^a   Clinton McHarg, Tara ^a   Hall, Alix ^a   Sanson Fisher, Rob ^a   Stevenson, William ^b   Tiley, Campbell ^a   Bisquera, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hematological cancer; Medication adherence; Oral therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84978022746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40164-015-0011-4     Document Type: Article

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