Medication adherence and its relationship to the therapeutic alliance: Results from an innovative pilot study within a community pharmacy MTM practice

• Main Authors: Janice Pringle, PhD (Author), Michael Melczak, PhD (Author), Arnie Aldridge, MS (Author), Margie Snyder, PharmD, MPH (Author), Randall Smith, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: To determine whether patients who received Medication Therapy Management (MTM) from community pharmacists using a brief scale to measure Therapeutic Alliance (i.e., MTM + TA) would show better medication adherence than patients whoreceived MTM without use of the TA scale (MTM only). Desi...