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Beyond Refills: Promoting Adherence to Optimize Outcomes

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In this chapter, we describe the problem of low adherence to asthma self-management behaviors and discuss the multiple factors, such as psychosocial, functional, and cognitive, that may lead to intentional or nonintentional nonadherence to medications. We then discuss a variety of tools and strategies that clinicians and health systems can employ to assess and address patients that are nonadherent to self-management.

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    Maria Duenas, Juan P. Wisnivesky & Alex Federman

  2. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

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Duenas, M., Wisnivesky, J.P., Federman, A. (2020). Beyond Refills: Promoting Adherence to Optimize Outcomes. In: Khurana, S., Holguin, F. (eds) Difficult To Treat Asthma. Respiratory Medicine. Humana, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20812-7_3

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