Identification of non-adherence hypertensive patients

• In: Community Pharmacy Public health - Posters
• At: Istanbul (Turkey) (2009)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: CPS3-P-005
• By: ROSSING, Charlotte (Pharmakon, Hillerød, Denmark)
• Co-author(s): Agergaard, Marianne (Pharmakon, Hillerød, Denmark)
  Kreiner, Svend (Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark)
  Herborg, Hanne (Pharmakon, Hillerød, Denmark)
  
• Abstract:

  Public health implications: Medical non-adherence can be identified as "the extent to which a person's medicine behaviour corresponds to the recommendations agreed upon with a health care provider". Poor adherence to antihypertensive medication has been documented to be an important reason for unsatisfactory control of blood pressure, which may

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