Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 142-149, February 2010

Medication Adherence is a Mediator of the Relationship Between Ethnicity and Event-Free Survival in Patients With Heart Failure

  • Jia-Rong Wu, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, Lexington, KY
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jia-Rong Wu, PhD, RN, University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, 509 CON Building, 760 Rose Street, Lexington, KY 40536-0232. Phone: (859) 257-6921; Fax: (859) 257-0554.
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  • Terry A. Lennie, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, Lexington, KY
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  • Marla J. De Jong, RN, PhD, CCNS, CCRN, Lt Col

      Affiliations

    • DoD Blast Injury Research Program Coordinating Office, U.S. Army Research and Material Command, Ft. Detrick, MD
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  • Susan K. Frazier, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, Lexington, KY
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  • Seongkum Heo, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • Indiana University, School of Nursing, Indianapolis, IN
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  • Misook L. Chung, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, Lexington, KY
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  • Debra K. Moser, DNSc, RN, FAAN

      Affiliations

    • University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, Lexington, KY

Received 9 December 2008; received in revised form 5 October 2009; accepted 6 October 2009. published online 11 December 2009.

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 Supported by funding from the Philips Medical-American Association of Critical Care Nurses Outcomes Grant, University of Kentucky General Clinical Research Center (M01RR02602), American Heart Association Great River Affiliate Post-doctoral Fellowship to Jia-Rong Wu, grant #R01 NR008567 from the National Institute of Nursing Research and a Center grant to the University of Kentucky, College of Nursing from NIH, NINR, 1P20NR010679.

 The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Nursing Research or the National Institutes of Health. The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private views of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the Department of the Air Force or the Department of Defense.

PII: S1071-9164(09)01127-0

doi:10.1016/j.cardfail.2009.10.017

Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 142-149, February 2010

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