Barriers to Prescription Medication Adherence Among Homeless and Vulnerably Housed Adults in Three Canadian Cities
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...Limited access to healthcare and poor medication adherence in these populations contribute to poor outcomes (Kushel et al. 2001, Kessell et al. 2006, Hunter et al. 2015, Surratt et al. 2015)....
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...denying the severity of a health problem are reasons commonly cited in the general population.(1,2) However, other reasons may indicate barriers related to housing status, such as not having regular access to a doctor, lacking a safe place to store medications, or having competing priorities....
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...Medication adherence, or the extent to which patients take prescribed medications, is an important determinant of successful medical treatment.(1,2) One meta-analysis found an average treatment adherence rate of 75....
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...A positive screen is defined as a score of ≥8 and is indicative of hazardous or harmful drinking.(21) Drug abuse and drug-related problems were assessed using the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST10)....
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...Multivariate models were constructed using a purposeful selection technique.(24) After generating univariate logistic regression models for each covariate against each outcome of interest, variables that met the inclusion criteria (P ≤ ....
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"Barriers to Prescription Medication..." refers background in this paper
...denying the severity of a health problem are reasons commonly cited in the general population.(1,2) However, other reasons may indicate barriers related to housing status, such as not having regular access to a doctor, lacking a safe place to store medications, or having competing priorities....
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...Medication adherence, or the extent to which patients take prescribed medications, is an important determinant of successful medical treatment.(1,2) One meta-analysis found an average treatment adherence rate of 75....
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