LOWLANDS 2001
The 2001 symposium on patient compliance and persistence was held at the University of Gent on November 14.Program
12:00 - 13:00
Welcome, Registration, Lunch
13:00 - 13:45
Patient compliance in hypertension: noncomplier or nonresponder?
Michel Burnier, MD. Division of Hypertension and Vascular Medicine and University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
13:45 - 14:30
Relation between visual acuity increase and compliance in patching therapy for amblyopia
Sjouke Loudon, Drs. AIO, Department of Eye surgery, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
14:30 - 15:15
Relationship between HIV-infected patient’s adherence to therapy and viral load
Bernard Vrijens, Senior Statistician, Aardex Ltd.
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:30
Adherence to asthma therapy: elaborating a measurement model
Erik Van Ganse, Alexia Marrel, Patrick Marquis, Laurent Laforest, Elisabeth Stahl, Ann-Christin MoerkLyon and Lund, France
16:30 - 17:15
Poor ‘patient’ compliance of healthy volunteers with instructions to self-administered study drugs
Robert Vander Stichele, MD. Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, Ghent University
17:15 - 18:00
Therapy resistant hypertension and compliance
Edouard Battegay, MD. University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland
18:00-19:00
Closing remarks: John Urquhart, Division of Pharmaco-Epidemiology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
19:00
Dinner at Restaurant “De Blauwe Zalm”
Conference venue: “Faculteitszaal”; Ghent University Hospital; De Pintelaan 185; 9000 Gent, Belgium