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Deciding about statins : a qualitative study of the way people come to take longterm preventive medication

2017-01-01

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This thesis set out to address a clinical puzzle: after being offered statins, why do many people end up not taking them? This question is relevant to two different enterprises, one aiming to improve public health through individually-targeted preventive interventions, the other aiming to help patients make evidence-based decisions about such interventions. To answer it, I used elements of a grounded theory approa...

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Literature Corpus work: 4f984ae9-e14c-5ff4-b090-96de54e332eb
DOI: 10.17037/pubs.04646131

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