Pharmaceutical and Pharmacotherapy
Research from University of Montreal Reveals New Findings on Pharmaceutical and Pharmacotherapy
Published in Drug Week, June 24th, 2011
2011 JUN 24 -- "Common measures of adherence to prescribed medications derived from administrative databases reflect both patients' and physicians' behavior, even if the measures are often interpreted as reflecting only the patient's adherence. Adherence to inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) has been shown to be low among patients with asthma," scientists writing in the journal Annals of Pharmacotherapy report.
"To develop a new measure of patients' adherence adjusted for prescription patterns and to evaluate the extent to which the low use of ICSs in asthma is due to patients' nonadherence or suboptimal prescribing practices. The new measure of...
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