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Medication Adherence in Chinese Patients with Essential Tremor: A Real World Study

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Volume 15 (2025): Issue 1
By: Runcheng HeORCID,  Mingqiang LiORCID,  Xun Zhou,  Lanqing LiuORCID,  Chunyu Wang,  Hainan Zhang and  Qiying Sun  
Open Access
|Sep 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.1095 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288
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Language: English
Submitted on: Aug 19, 2025
Accepted on: Sep 6, 2025
Published on: Sep 16, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Medication adherence,
Essential tremor,
Essential tremor plus,
Real world study

© 2025 Runcheng He, Mingqiang Li, Xun Zhou, Lanqing Liu, Chunyu Wang, Hainan Zhang, Qiying Sun, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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