Importance Among adults with chronic illness, 30% to 50% of medications are not taken as
prescribed. In the United States, it is estimated that medication nonadherence is associated …

Importance Adherence to long-term therapies in chronic disease is poor. Traditional
interventions to improve adherence are complex and not widely effective. Mobile telephone …

Abstract The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) atrial fibrillation (AF) guidelines
program was developed to aid clinicians in the management of these complex patients, as …

Improving medication adherence may have a greater influence on the health of our
population than in the discovery of any new therapy. Patients are nonadherent to their …

Aims To determine whether the Joint European Societies guidelines on cardiovascular
prevention are being followed in everyday clinical practice of secondary prevention and to …

The treatment of chronic illnesses commonly includes the long-term use of
pharmacotherapy. Although these medications are effective in combating disease, their full …

OBJECTIVE: Combination therapy, specifically with aspirin, cholesterol and blood pressure-
lowering drugs, substantially reduces the risk of coronary heart disease, but the full …

Chinese translation Background: Systematic data on discontinuation of statins in routine
practice of medicine are limited. Objective: To investigate the reasons for statin …

Despite encouraging advances in prevention and treatment of atherothrombosis,
cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a major cause of deaths and disability worldwide …

Medication adherence usually refers to whether patients take their medications as
prescribed (eg, twice daily), as well as whether they continue to take a prescribed …