SELF-REPORTED MORISKY EIGHT ITEM MEDICATION ADHERENCE SCALE FOR STATINS CONCORDS WITH PILL COUNT METHOD AND CORRELATES WITH SERUM LIPID PROFILE PARAMETERS AND SERUM HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE LEVELS

Background: It is imperative that non-compliance to statins be identified and addressed to optimize the clinical benefit of statins. Patient self-reporting methods are convenient to apply in clinical practice but need to be validated. Therefore, we studied the concordance of a patient self-report