Barriers to adherence to antihypertensive medications in clinical practice – a population-based study

• In: D6 - Pharmacy Practice Research: Access to medicines and pharmacists’ influence on medication adherence on Tuesday, 2 September 2014, 14:00-17:00
• At: Bangkok (Thailand) (2014)
• Type: Presentation
• By: HAKKARAINEN, Katja (Division of Drug Research, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden)
• Co-author(s): Hakkarainen, Katja (Nordic School of Public Health NHV, Gothenburg, Sweden)
  Gyllensten, Hanna (Nordic School of Public Health NHV, Gothenburg, Sweden)
  Andersson Sundell, Karolina (Unit of Social Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)
  Petzold, Max (Centre for Applied Biostatistics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)
  Hägg, Staffan (Division of Drug Research, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden)
  
• Abstract:

  Background Hypertension patients' multiple medications should be considered in studies on adherence in real life settings. Aims To measure refill adherence to antihypertensive medications and to explore factors associated with refill nonadherence in the general population. Methods A retrospective cohort study was conducted in a Swedish county

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