Table 2.

Description of concordance in rating medication adherence

	n	Concordance	Always	Often	At times	Rarely	Never
Forget to take medication	147	40%
PCP; %			0.6	2.3	17.4	37.8	41.9
Patient; %			4.1	0.0	6.8	24.3	64.9
Change the doses	136	56%
PCP; %			0.0	3.5	10.5	31.0	55.0
Patient; %			0.0	1.5	4.4	8.0	86.1
Suspend for a while	137	57%
PCP; %			0.0	2.3	9.2	35.8	52.6
Patient; %			0.0	0.7	2.9	7.3	89.1
Deliberately omitted to take a dose	137	61%
PCP; %			0.0	1.7	9.3	29.7	59.3
Patient; %			0.0	0.7	2.2	8.7	88.4
Take less than prescribed	134	52%
PCP; %			0.6	2.4	10.0	38.2	48.8
Patient; %			0.0	0.7	4.4	5.1	89.8

Abbreviation: PCP, primary care physician.