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| | BioMed Central | Full text | Individual characteristics, area social participation, and primary non-concordance with ... |
 | | Despite the comprehensive research on concordance during the last decades [3], non-concordance remains a concern in health care, and there is still a need for studies on correlates of non-concordance because the complex phenomenon of non-concordance is far from understood. |
 | | The term concordance implies agreement, trust, and harmony between patient and doctor regarding treatment, and acknowledges the patient as a decision maker, and a cornerstone is professional empathy [2,5]. |
 | | In a previous study, we observed that the association between social participation and concordance with antihypertensives varied among municipalities in Scania, Sweden (i.e., cross-level interaction) [19], which suggests that the area of residence may influence the mechanisms behind the concordance behaviour. |
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