Associations between patients' risk attitude and their adherence to statin treatment - a population based questionnaire and register study.

Background: Poor adherence to medical treatment may have considerable consequences for the patients' health and for healthcare costs to society. The need to understand the determinants for poor adherence has motivated several studies on socio-demographics and comorbidity. Few studies focus on the association between risk attitude and adherence.

Associations between patients' adherence and GPs' attitudes towards risk, statin therapy and management of non-adherence--a survey and register-based study.

Background: Previous studies suggest that doctors' personal lifestyle, risk taking personality and beliefs about risk reducing therapies may affect their clinical decision-making. Whether such factors are further associated with patients' adherence with medication is largely unknown.

Objective: To estimate associations between GPs' attitudes towards risk, statin therapy and management of non-adherence and their patients' adherence, and to identify subgroups of GPs with poor patient adherence.

GPs' Perceptions of Cardiovascular Risk and Views on Patient Compliance: A Qualitative Interview Study.

Objective. General practitioners' (GPs') perception of risk is a cornerstone of preventive care. The aims of this interview study were to explore GPs' professional and personal attitudes and experiences regarding treatment with lipid-lowering drugs and their views on patient compliance.

General practitioners' home visit tendency and readmission-free survival after COPD hospitalisation: a Danish nationwide cohort study.

Background: The tendency of general practitioners (GPs) to conduct home visits is considered an important aspect of practices' accessibility and quality of care.

Aims: To investigate whether GPs' tendency to conduct home visits affects 30-day readmission or death after hospitalisation with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Methods: All Danish patients first-time hospitalised with COPD during the years 2006-2008 were identified.

Strategies for discontinuation of proton pump inhibitors: a systematic review.

Purpose: Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are considered to be overprescribed. Consensus on how to attempt discontinuation is, however, lacking. We therefore conducted a systematic review of clinical studies on discontinuation of PPIs.

Rapidly increasing prescribing of proton pump inhibitors in primary care despite interventions: a nationwide observational study.

Background: Guideline and reimbursement modifications have been introduced to optimize prescribing of antisecretory medication in Danish general practice. Impacts of the interventions have not been evaluated.

Objectives: To analyse developments in prescribing of antisecretory medication in Denmark 2001-2011 and to assess the impacts of interventions on prescribing of antisecretory medication.

Primary non-adherence in general practice: a Danish register study.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe primary non-adherence (PNA) in a Danish general practitioner (GP) setting, i.e. the extent to which patients fail to fill the first prescription for a new drug.

Prevalence of the use of antihypertensive medications in Greenland: a study of quality of care amongst patients treated with antihypertensive drugs.

Objectives: The primary objective was to estimate the prevalence of patients diagnosed with hypertension using the proxy marker of antihypertensive drug therapy in Greenland and to compare the prevalences within the 5 health regions in Greenland. The second objective was to review 2 quality indicators in antihypertensive care.

Study Design: Observational and cross-sectional study reviewing electronic medical records.

Associations between reporting of cancer alarm symptoms and socioeconomic and demographic determinants: a population-based, cross-sectional study.

Background: Reporting of symptoms which may signal cancer is the first step in the diagnostic pathway of cancer diseases. Cancer alarm symptoms are common in the general population. Public awareness and knowledge of cancer symptoms are sparse, however, and many people do not seek medical help when having possible cancer symptoms.

On the crest of a wave: Danish prevalence of hospitalisation-required COPD 2002-2009.

Objective: Symptoms, mortality, and costs of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) concentrate among patients who have been hospitalised with the disease. Nevertheless, no solid estimates exist of trends in the prevalence of this condition. This study aimed to investigate age- and sex-specific trends in the prevalence of hospitalisation-required COPD.

Is a targeted intensive intervention effective for improvements in hypertension control? A randomized controlled trial.

Background: High blood pressure (BP) is one of the most important risk factors for stroke, and antihypertensive therapy significantly reduces the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, achieving a regulated BP in hypertensive patients is still a challenge.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of an intervention targeting GPs' management of hypertension.

Multimorbidity and blood pressure control in 37 651 hypertensive patients from Danish general practice.

Background: Patients with hypertension are primarily treated in general practice. However, major studies of patients with hypertension are rarely based on populations from primary care. Knowledge of blood pressure (BP) control rates in patients with diabetes and/or cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), who have additional comorbidities, is lacking.