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The authors of this paper regret to advise that the following corrections are required in order to rectify copyright infringement of the Morisky Medication Adherence scale (MMAS-8) – a retroactive license has been obtained.

1. Article “Medication adherence in outpatients with arterial hypertension” authored by Jelena Lalić, RadmilaVeličković-Radovanović, Branka Mitić, Valentina Nikolić, Ana Spasić, Goran Koraćević published in Volume 30/issue 4/pages 209-218.
   
   
2. DOI of the original article - 10.2478/afmnai-2013-0013.
   
   
3. A statement is to be added to Table1 to acknowledge the copyright of MMAS. The Table 1 is to be added in Patients and methods section as follows:

Table 1. The 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8)

Question

1. Do you sometimes forget to take your high blood pressure pills?
2. Over the past two weeks, were there any days when you did not take your high blood pressure medicine?
3. Have you ever cut back or stopped taking your medication without telling your doctor because you felt worse when you took it?
4. When you travel or leave home, do you sometimes forget to bring along your medications?
5. Did you take your high blood pressure medicine yesterday?
6. When you feel like your blood pressure is under control, do you sometimes stop taking your medicine?
7. Do you ever feel hassled about sticking to your blood pressure treatment plan?
8. How often do you have difficulty remembering to take all your blood pressure medication?

Use of the ©MMAS is protected by US copyright laws. Permission for use is required. Alicense agreement is available from: Donald E. Morisky, MMAS Research (MORISKY) LLC 14725NE 20th St. Bellevue, WA 98007.

4. The following references for the 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS) were missing. These are as follows:
   Morisky DE, Ang A, Krousel-Wood M, Ward H. Predictive Validity of a MedicationAdherence Measure for Hypertension Control. J Clin Hypertens 2008;10(5):348-354.
   Krousel-Wood MA, Islam T, Webber LS, Re RS, Morisky DE, Muntner P. NewMedication Adherence Scale Versus Pharmacy Fill Rates in Seniors with Hypertension.Am J Manag Care 2009;15(1):59-66.
   Morisky DE, DiMatteo MR. Improving the measurement of self-reported medicationnonadherence: Final response. J Clin Epidemi 2011; 64:258-263. PMID:21144706.

5. These references should be cited in the Patients and methods section as follows:
   Information on the patient’s health and their adherence was obtained through face-to-face interviews with the participants using the validated survey form for medication adherence - 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) translated into Serbian for the present study (Morisky et al. 2008; Krousel-Wood et al. 2009; Morisky and DiMatteo 2011).

6. The corrected text under the second paragraph in the Patients and methods section should read as follows:
   Response categories are yes/no for each item with a dichotomous response and a5-point Likert response for the last item.

7. This text is to be added in the second paragraph in the Patients and methods section:
   The total MMAS-8 scores are interpreted as follows: low adherence (score <6), medium adherence (score 6 to <8) and high adherence (score = 8) (Morisky et al. 2008; Krousel-Wood et al. 2009; Morisky and DiMatteo 2011).

8. The corrected text under the third paragraph in the Patients and methods section should read as follows:
   Adherent group (I) consisted of patients who showed high and medium level of adherence according to the MMAS-8.

9. Erratum DOI – 10.1515/afmnai-2017-0038

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