Adherence with topical treatment is poor compared with adherence with oral agents: Implications for effective clinical use of topical agents - 09/08/11

Jennifer Krejci-Manwaring, MD ^a, Martha Ann McCarty, MS, PA-C ^a, Fabian Camacho, MS, MA ^c, Christie L. Carroll, MD ^a, Katherine Johnson, BA, CRC ^a, Janeen Manuel, PhD ^{a, c}, Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD ^d, Jennifer Hartle, MPH ^e, Alan Fleischer, MD ^a, Steven R. Feldman, MD, PhD ^{a, b, c, ⁎}

^a Departments of Dermatology 

^b Pathology 

^c Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem North Carolina 

^d Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 

^e Astellas Pharma Inc, Deerfield, Illinois 

Reprint requests: Steven R. Feldman, MD, PhD, Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1071