Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Medication nonadherence has become somewhat of an adagestarting with Hippocrates commonly used quote by adherence researchers: 'Keep a watch … on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed'.Many publications focused on adherence refer to the statistic where approximately 50% of medicines prescribed to people with long-term conditions are not taken as recommended.This number originated in a Cochrane review published in 2002 1 and reached a global audience in the 2003 World Health Organization 'Adherence to Long-Term Therapies: Evidence for Action'. 2 Whilst these documents are well overdue for updates,
DOI: 10.1111/bcp.16384
Language: English
Subfield: Family Practice
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4405883621