Assessing patient adherence to chronic diseases treatment: differentiating between epidemiological and clinical approaches Avaliação da adesão do paciente ao tratamento de doenças crônicas: diferenciando as abordagens epidemiológica e clínica

• Main Authors: Maria Ines Battistella Nemes (Author), Ernani Tiaraju de Santa Helena (Author), Joselita M. M Caraciolo (Author), Cáritas Relva Basso (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This review discusses the concepts and methods for assessing patient adherence to treatment, as applied to both epidemiological and clinical approaches within real health care practices. For the epidemiological approach, the assessment must be as accurate as possible. Self-reported questionnaires ar...