Portela, Maria da Conceição ConstantinoFernandes, Adalberto Campos2021-09-152021-09-152015-01-012333-3928http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/34863During a severe financial crisis, it is a priority to use scientific evidence to identify factors that enable therapeutic compliance by patients. This study aimed to evaluate a possible association between the number of patients who attended a medical appointment and had medicine prescribed and the number of these same patients who purchased the prescribed medicine and whether the level of reimbursement was a deciding factor. We perform a correlation analysis at primary care centers in Portugal, between 2010 and 2012 (n = 96). We found a moderate to high positive association, which is statistical significant, between the number of the patients with medicines dispensing and medicines reimbursement levels. The correlation coefficient varies from.5 to.63 (P <.01). The compliance increases along with the increase in the reimbursement levels.engAccess to careCommunity health centersEfficiencyHealth economicsPrimary carejournal article10.1177/23333928156019728510889480428462263000450814000018