Primary medication non-adherence to analgesics and antibiotics at Counties Manukau Health Emergency Department
Primary medication non-adherence to analgesics and antibiotics at Counties Manukau Health Emergency Department Open Access PDF Download For medication to be therapeutically effective, it is essential that patients adhere to them. Filling a prescription is the first critical step to establish medication adherence.[[1,2]] Research on medication adherence has primarily focused on secondary non-adherence, which occurs when patients don’t take their medicines as prescribed, don’t refill their prescriptions on time or stop taking their medicines.[[3]] However, rates of primary medication non-a...