Do pregnant women use pharmacological treatment as prescribed?
Running title: Adherence to prescribed medication in pregnancy
Beau A C de Korte1,2, Nori J L
Smeets3, Angela Colbers4, Bart J F
van den Bemt4,5, Marleen M H J van
Gelder1
1 Department for Health Evidence, Radboud Institute
for Health Sciences, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The
Netherlands
2 Department of Gynecology, Canisius Wilhelmina
Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
3 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Radboud
Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud university medical center,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
4 Department of Pharmacy, Radboud Institute for Health
Sciences, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
5 Department of Rheumatology Research, Sint
Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Corresponding author: Marleen van Gelder PhD, Department for
Health Evidence (HP133), Radboudumc, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen,
The Netherlands. T: +31-24-3666126. E: Marleen.vanGelder@radboudumc.nl.
Data availability: The data from this study are not publicly
available due to privacy and ethical restrictions. For further requests
about access to PRIDE Study data please contact
Marleen.vanGelder@radboudumc.nl.
Funding: No specific funding was received for this paper.
Author contributions: Ms de Korte was the lead author,
responsible for study design, statistical analysis, data interpretation,
and preparation of the draft manuscript. Ms Smeets was responsible for
study design, data collection, data interpretation, and critically
reviewed the manuscript. Dr. Colbers and Prof. van den Bemt were
responsible for study design, data interpretation, and critically
reviewed the manuscript. Dr. van Gelder was responsible for study
design, data collection, statistical analysis, data interpretation, and
critically reviewed the manuscript.
Conflict of interest: The authors have stated explicitly that
there are no conflicts of interest in connection with this paper.
Ethics approval : The PRIDE Study was approved by the Regional
Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects Arnhem-Nijmegen (CMO
2009/305).
ORCID ID : Nori Smeets 0000-0002-4927-2459
Angela Colbers 0000-0002-0389-9934
Bart van den Bemt 0000-0002-8560-9514
Marleen van Gelder 0000-0003-4853-4434
Key words: Medication adherence; Implementation; Pregnancy;
PRIDE Study; Treatment initiation
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