Compliance with drug therapy.
Although no single method is ideal for measuring compliance the methods now available allow accurate assessment of compliance in most settings. Studies using new and more accurate methods of measuring compliance have shown poor compliance to be an even greater problem than was previously thought. Using these methods, efforts in the future should be directed at relating compliance to treatment outcome, and investigating whether manoeuvres aimed at improving compliance actually improve patient outcome.
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University Department of Medicine, General Infirmary, Leeds.
D000368:Aged; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance