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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