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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 essential to understand across many different fields. Some of various fields include healthcare, where patients adherence to medical advice is necessary, furthermore, marketing where consumer behavior is prioritized strategies can be developed. [2] Social psychology is centered on the idea of social influence. It is the ...
Nonadherence or poor adherence to medical regimens may adversely affect the health of the pediatric patient, resulting in hospitalization to address disease processes and adherence issues. Nonadherence issues include failure to administer medications as prescribed, failure to follow dietary guidelines, defiance of physical activity restrictions ...
Patient Preference and Adherence is a peer-reviewed healthcare journal focusing on patient preference and adherence throughout the therapeutic continuum. The journal was established in 2007 and is published by Dove Medical Press .
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
An orthopedics patient may face a choice between aggressive lumbar spinal fusion versus physical therapy. Treatment decision support is intended to bridge the gap between patients' initial knowledge and the knowledge that is required for them to make fully informed decisions about which treatment to pursue.
When the patient either can not or will not do what the physician knows is the correct course of treatment, the patient becomes non-adherent. Adherence management coaching becomes necessary to provide positive reinforcement of unpleasant options.
An important problem is the occurrence of missing data for participants in a clinical trial. This can happen when patients are lost to follow-up (for instance, by withdrawal due to adverse effects of the intervention) and no response is obtainable for these patients. However, full application of ITT analysis can only be performed where there is ...