Are patient-reported and physician-estimated adherence to HAART : social and clinic center-related factors associated with discordance?
Physicians did not correctly estimate patient-reported adherence to HAART in more than one third of patients. Both social variables and factors related to the clinical center were important predictors of discordance between patients and physicians. Interventions to enhance adherence should include strategies addressed to improve patient-physician relationship.
Our results confirm that maternal serum biochemical markers in the first trimester are unable to distinguish cases in which the fetus has open spina bifida.