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