Medication Adherence in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Effect of Patient Education, Health Literacy, and Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

Table 1

Databases accessed displaying search terms employed, results, access limitation, reasons for exclusion and accepted papers dealing with factors affecting medication adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Database; Search terms	Number of papers identified	Number of full text peer reviewed papers able to be accessed	Reasons for exclusion (number)	Number of papers identified for inclusion ref. number
PsycINFO via EBSCO host; Rheumatoid arthritis; and; Compliance; and; Medication	23	5	Juvenile population (1); Review paper (1); Not relevant (2)	[34]
ProQuest (general); Adherence; And; rheumatoid arthritis; and; Relationship	3099	1891	Already included (1); Review papers (2); Juvenile population (1); Not relevant (1886)	[87]
ProQuest (general); Rheumatoid arthritis; and; Compliance; and; Medication	4391	2118	Already included (1); Juvenile population (1); Not relevant (2114)	[27, 28]
ProQuest (general); Adherence or compliance; and; rheumatoid arthritis; and; Factors or  predictors	10265	5486	Already included (3); Not relevant (5481)	[29, 32]
PubMed; rheumatoid arthritis; and; factors; and  Medication persistence	48	15	Already included (3); Unrepresentative population (2); Not relevant (9)	[31]
PubMed; Rheumatoid arthritis; and; Compliance; and; Medication	163	138	Review/meta-analysis (2); Juvenile population (2); Not relevant (133)	[20]
PubMed; Adherence [or] compliance; and; rheumatoid arthritis; and; Factors or  predictors	17	9	Osteoporosis management (1); Not relevant (7)	[30]