Disparities in European healthcare system approaches to maintaining continuity of medication for non-communicable diseases during the COVID-19 outbreak

• Przemyslaw Kardas,
• Job Frank Martien van Boven,
• Hilary Pinnock,
• Enrica Menditto,
• Björn Wettermark,
• Ioanna Tsiligianni,
• Tamás Ágh

Affiliations

Przemyslaw Kardas

Medication Adherence Research Centre, Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Narutowicza St. 60, 90-136 Lodz, Poland; Corresponding author.

Job Frank Martien van Boven

Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Medication Adherence Expertise Center of the northern Netherlands (MAECON), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, the Netherlands

Hilary Pinnock

Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Doorway 3, Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, United Kingdom

Enrica Menditto

CIRFF, Center of Pharmacoeconomics and Drug Utilization Research, Department of Pharmacy University of Naples Federico II, Via Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy

Björn Wettermark

Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3, 752 37 Uppsala, Sweden; Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Universiteto g. 3, LT-01513 Vilnius, Lithuania

Ioanna Tsiligianni

Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Tamás Ágh

Syreon Research Institute, Mexikoi str. 65/A, 1142 Budapest, Hungary