Measuring medication adherence: standardized definitions are needed to allow for comparisons

ABSTRACT Objectives Though pharmacy claims data are commonly used to study medication adherence, there remains no standard operational definition for adherence especially for patients on multiple medications. Even when studies use the same terminology, the actual methods of calculating adherence ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Karen Tang, Hude Quan, Doreen Rabi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2017-04-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/58