Medication adherence interventions improve heart failure mortality and readmission rates: Systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Ruppar, Todd M ^a   Cooper, Pamela S ^a   Mehr, David R ^b   Delgado, Janet M ^a   Dunbar Jacob, Jacqueline M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Hospitalization; Intervention; Medication adherence; Meta analysis; Mortality; Readmission; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EFFECT SIZE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY RISK; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CARE; SELF MONITORING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84991522079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.115.002606     Document Type: Article

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