… Wong KS … S Jarab A, Al-Qerem WA, Hamam H, Abu Heshmeh S, Al-Azzam S, L
Mukattash T, Alefishat EA … Legese GL, Asres G, Alemu S, Yesuf T, Tesfaye YA, Amare T …

Objective: To measure the impact of medication copayment level and other predictors on
compliance with antihypertensive medications, as measured by the medication possession ratio…

Background Health information technology (HIT) has the potential to improve clinical outcomes,
increase health provider productivity and reduce healthcare costs. Over half of all patient …

Affecting an estimated 12.6 million people and causing over 100,000 deaths per year,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacts a heavy burden on American society. …

Older adults are vulnerable to hospital‐associated complications such as falls, pressure
ulcers, functional decline, and delirium, which can contribute to prolonged hospital stay, …

Objectives: Despite recommendations from the Joint National Committee on the Prevention,
Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7), only 36.8% of …

Background Hypertension (HTN) confers increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk;
however, the variation in risk and how treatment and control rates may differ according to extent …

Despite the availability of effective antihypertensive therapies, adherence to and persistence
with treatment is suboptimal. As such, there is a need to better understand factors …

Sodium salicylate has long been known to be an inducer of the heat shock puffs and
presumably heat shock gene transcription in the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila salivary …

Objective: To determine the association between inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) use and the
risk of pneumonia among Medicare patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (…