Purpose: A number of potential determinants of medication non-adherence have been
described so far. However, the heterogenic quality of existing publications poses the need …

ESC Guidelines 2389 disclosure forms are kept on file at the European Heart House,
headquarters of the ESC. Any changes in conflict of interest that arise during the writing …

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is the leading cause of hospitalization for those over the age of
65 and represents a significant clinical and economic burden. About half of hospital re …

Background Nowadays, heart failure (HF) related morbidity and mortality rate is increasing
globally. Younger populations happen to be more affected by HF in sub-Saharan African …

Background Patients' non-adherence to medical treatment remains a persistent problem.
Many interventions to improve patient adherence are unsuccessful and sound theoretical …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Oral nutritional supplements (ONS) play a key role in the
management of malnutrition. This systematic review examined patients' compliance with …

Background Many systematic reviews exist on interventions to improve safe and effective
medicines use by consumers, but research is distributed across diseases, populations and …

Aims Non-compliance in patients with heart failure (HF) contributes to worsening HF
symptoms and may lead to hospitalization. Several smaller studies have examined …

Human factors and ergonomics approaches have been successfully applied to study and
improve the work performance of healthcare professionals. However, there has been …

Aims Improved self‐care is the goal of many heart failure (HF) management programmes.
The 12‐item European Heart Failure Self‐Care Behaviour Scale (EHFScB scale) was …