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Both patient and health-care provider affect compliance, and a positive physician-patient relationship is the most important factor in improving compliance. [1] Access to care plays a role in patient adherence, whereby greater wait times to access care contributing to greater absenteeism. [2] The cost of prescription medication also plays a ...
Compliance psychology is the study of the process where individuals comply to social influence, typically in response to requests and pressures brought on by others. It encompasses a variety of theories, mechanisms, and applications in a wide range of contexts (e.g. personal and professional).
A licensed health care professional can be held legally liable for the advice he or she gives to a patient. Giving bad advice may be considered medical malpractice under specified circumstances. The doctor–patient relationship is one factor in determining the patient's compliance with medical advice. [3]
In 2015 CMS identified 254 quality measures for which providers may choose to submit data. The measures map to U.S. National Quality Standard (NQS) health care quality domains: [4] Communication and Care Coordination; Community/Population Health; Effective Clinical Care; Efficiency and Cost Reduction; Patient Safety
Medical malpractice is a legal cause of action that occurs when a medical or health care professional, through a negligent act or omission, deviates from standards in their profession, thereby causing injury or death to a patient. [1] The negligence might arise from errors in diagnosis, treatment, aftercare or health management.
The primary care behavioral health (PCBH) consultation model is a psychological approach to population-based clinical health care that is simultaneously co-located, collaborative, and integrated within the primary care clinic. The goal of PCBH is to improve and promote overall health within the general population.
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Compliance (medicine), a patient's (or doctor's) adherence to a recommended course of treatment; Compliance (physiology), the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions (this is a specific usage of the mechanical meaning) Pulmonary compliance (or lung compliance), change in lung volume for applied or dynamic pressure