Medication adherence plays an important role in optimizing the outcomes of many treatment
and preventive regimens in chronic illness. Self-report is the most common method for …

Aims Medication non‐adherence is a significant health problem. There are numerous
methods for measuring adherence, but no single method performs well on all criteria. The …

Abstract Background: To validate the 'Test of Adherence to Inhalers'(TAI), a 12-item
questionnaire designed to assess the adherence to inhalers in patients with COPD or …

Background There is a recognised need to build primary care medication adherence
services which are tailored to patients' needs. Continuous quality improvement of such …

Objectives: The goal of comparative effectiveness analysis is to examine the relationship
between two variables, treatment, or exposure and effectiveness or outcome. Unlike data …

Objectives. We sought to determine if reported racial discrimination was associated with
medication nonadherence among African Americans with hypertension and if distrust of …

OBJECTIVE: Despite the importance of the chronic use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in
maintaining asthma control, reported adherence varies between 40% and 60%. The Beliefs …

Nonadherence to long-term treatment is a worldwide problem resulting in illness
exacerbation and increased health care costs for most chronic conditions, including asthma …

BACKGROUND: The Morisky medication adherence scale is a commonly used adherence
screening tool. It is composed of 4 yes/no questions about past medication use patterns and …

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of a short message service
(SMS)-based strategy on adherence to antipsychotic treatment. METHODS: A multicentre …