ContextDespite wide promulgation, clinical practice guidelines have had limited effect on
changing physician behavior. Little is known about the process and factors involved in …

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 …

BACKGROUND: Accurate and reliable information about children’s use of inhaled medications
is needed because of the growing reliance on these drugs in the treatment of asthma and …

Objectives. To evaluate the validity of patient report, pharmacy dispensing records, and pill
counts as measures of antihypertensive adherence using electronic monitoring as the …

The purpose of this research was to identify patterns of patient-provider communication, in
particular combinations of verbal and nonverbal (vocal) expression during the medical visit, …

… Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Cynthia S. Rand, Ph.D.,
The JohnsHopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, 301 Bayview Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21224. …

BACKGROUND: Accurate assessment of medication adherence has been difficult to achieve
but is essential to drug evaluation in clinical trials and improved outcomes in clinical care. …

Measuring adherence to medical and behavioral interventions is important to clinicians and
researchers since inadequate adherence can reduce the effectiveness of an intervention. …

We studied patterns of inhaler usage in a sample of participants from two centers in the Lung
Health Study clinical trial. The inhaler, containing either ipratropium bromide or a placebo, …

Rationale: Although inadequate health literacy has been associated with lower asthma
medication knowledge and worse metered-dose inhaler (MDI) technique, the relationship …