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      Medication adherence: its importance in cardiovascular outcomes.

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      Circulation
      Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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          Abstract

          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 medication. Medication nonadherence is a growing concern to clinicians, healthcare systems, and other stakeholders (eg, payers) because of mounting evidence that it is prevalent and associated with adverse outcomes and higher costs of care. To date, measurement of patient medication adherence and use of interventions to improve adherence are rare in routine clinical practice. The goals of the present report are to address (1) different methods of measuring adherence, (2) the prevalence of medication nonadherence, (3) the association between nonadherence and outcomes, (4) the reasons for nonadherence, and finally, (5) interventions to improve medication adherence.

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          Journal
          Circulation
          Circulation
          Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
          1524-4539
          0009-7322
          Jun 16 2009
          : 119
          : 23
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA. michael.ho@va.gov
          Article
          119/23/3028
          10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.768986
          19528344
          1f4354a9-dab6-4021-b4f3-7aa3908f0ae4
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