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1School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom 2Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, London, United Kingdom Introduction: Oral anticoagulants (OACs) are essential for managing thromboembolic events and cardiovascular conditions. However, they carry a significant bleeding risk. Pharmacists play a critical role in ensuring the safe and effective use of these medications.
1. Introduction Adherence to long-term medications for chronic illness is a global issue. Adherence to medication can be explained as the extent to which a patients’ dietary and medicine taking behavior, and lifestyle is consistent to the recommended instructions from a healthcare provider (Yousuf et al., 2023; World Health Organization WHO, 2003).
1 Introduction Chronic illnesses are usually prolonged illnesses that are managed throughout the course of a patient’s life and are not often completely cured (Dowrick et al., 2005). They may require either life-long or long-term medication therapy and the success of long-term treatments depends on proper adherence to the medication therapy regimen (World Health Organization, 2003; Dowrick et al., 2005; Naqvi et al., 2019).
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