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- Title
Helping our patients to adhere to chronic medications: a new arrow for the quiver.
- Authors
Shrank, William; Shrank, William H
- Abstract
The article discuses a study by J. A. Schmittdiel and colleagues which investigated a method that will support patients' adherence to chronic medications. It states that the researchers performed several sensitivity analyses and employed multiple approaches to prove that mail-order pharmacy could improve compliance to cholesterol medications. It reveals that mail-order pharmacies improved adherence, as well as cholesterol control.
- Subjects
PATIENT compliance; DRUG utilization; CHRONIC disease treatment; CHOLESTEROL; SENSITIVITY analysis; DRUGSTORES; DRUG therapy for hyperlipidemia; OCCUPATIONAL roles; ANTILIPEMIC agents; LDL cholesterol; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; CARDIOVASCULAR agents; PHARMACEUTICAL services insurance; DRUGS; POSTAL service; PHYSICIANS
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2011, Vol 26, Issue 12, p1394
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-011-1909-0