Importance Among adults with chronic illness, 30% to 50% of medications are not taken as
prescribed. In the United States, it is estimated that medication nonadherence is associated …

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 …

OBJECTIVE Adults with diabetes typically take multiple medications for hyperglycemia,
diabetes-associated conditions, and other comorbidities. Medication adherence is …

OBJECTIVE: To design a functional, patient-centered model of patient complexity with
practical applicability to analytic design and clinical practice. Existing literature on patient …

Background Medication nonadherence may reduce the effectiveness of therapies. To our
knowledge, the association between medication nonadherence and mortality remains …

BACKGROUND: The benefits of drug therapy to diabetic patients in terms of glycemic
control, microvascular complications, cardiovascular event risk, mortality, and quality of life …

Metformin is the most widely prescribed drug for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and
the first‐line pharmacological option as supported by multiple international guidelines, yet a …

OBJECTIVE—Although prior research demonstrated that improving diabetes self-efficacy
can improve self-management behavior, little is known about the applicability of this …

BACKGROUND: Asthma is an inflammatory condition often punctuated by episodic
symptomatic worsening, and accordingly, patients with asthma might have waxing and …

Objectives: To review studies of patient compliance/persistence with cardiovascular or
antidiabetic medication published since the year 2000; to compare the methods used to …