Non-persistence and non-adherence to long-acting COPD medication therapy: A retrospective cohort study based on a large German claims dataset

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• 作者：Sabrina Mueller^a ; ^{kontakt@ipam-wismar.de} ; Thomas Wilke^a ; Benno Bechtel^b ; Yogesh Suresh Punekar^c ; Karen Mitzner^d ; J. Christian Virchow^e
• 关键词：COPD ; COPD medication therapy ; Adherence to COPD therapy ; Persistence to COPD therapy ; Discontinuation of COPD therapy
• 刊名：Respiratory Medicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：122
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1-11
• 全文大小：1707 K
• 卷排序：122

文摘

In German COPD patients, persistence and adherence in long term therapy is poor. Approximately two thirds of patients fail to continue treatment after 12 months. About one third implement their treatment poorly during periods of general therapy continuation.