Adherence to inhalers and comorbidities in COPD patients. A cross-sectional primary care study from Greece

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Table 4 Type of non-compliance within level of adherence in COPD patients

TAI-12 items^a	Sporadic non-compliers (n = 183)	Deliberate non-compliers (n = 169)	Unconscious non-compliers (n = 99)
Poor Adherence (n = 169)	169 (100%)	158 (93.5%)	84 (51.5%)
Good-Intermediate Adherence (n = 59)	10 (16.9%)	0	7 (11.9%)

TAI Test of Adherence to Inhalers;
^aa single patient may have more than one type or pattern of non-compliance and a patient with good adherence may be an unconscious non-complier; TAI: Test of Adherence to Inhalers

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