Barriers to concordance with antidiabetic drugs--cultural differences or human nature?
Autor: | Trisha Greenhalgh |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study Distrust business.industry Concordance media_common.quotation_subject Population General Engineering Alternative medicine General Medicine Indigenous Harm Cultural diversity Family medicine General Earth and Planetary Sciences Medicine business education Primary Care General Environmental Science Pharmaceutical industry media_common |
Popis: | British Indian and British Pakistani patients think that the products of the pharmaceutical industry are potent and may do harm. They do not want to take any more tablets than they absolutely have to. They discontinue their tablets if they have major side effects. They distrust doctors who stand to gain financially from prescribing particular drugs. They use creative strategies to titrate the dose of their drugs to the lowest that they consider works.1 In all these respects, the sample reported here has more similarities to than differences from the indigenous British population, and indeed most other groups studied in relation to medicine taking.2 3 That said, this study is no less … |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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