A Cross-Sectional Survey of Fixed-Dose Combination Antihypertensive Medicine Prescribing in Twenty-Four Countries, Including Qualitative Insights.
Edel T O'HaganDaniel McIntyreTu Ngoc NguyenKit Mun TanPeter HanlonMaha SiddiquiAnastase DzudieToon Wei LimAnezi I UzenduTan Van NguyenWei Jin WongHui Min KhorPramod KumarTimothy UsherwoodClara Kayei ChowPublished in: Global heart (2024)
Cost and access were the most common barriers to prescribing FDCs across high- and low-income countries. While greater educational support for clinicians was perceived as the leading potential facilitator of FDC use, this seems unlikely to be effective without addressing access.