Urging Europe to put non-adherence to inhaled respiratory medication higher on the policy agenda: a report from the First European Congress on Adherence to Therapy.

Affiliations: Dept of General Practice, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. Dept of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. Dept of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. Dept of Pulmonary Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Dept of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Cardio-thoracic Unit and Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK. Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore. Pulmonary Environmental Epidemiology Unit, CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy. 9CNR Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology, Palermo, Italy.