title: Scheduled appointments and patient-staff compliance.
abstract: Studies of medication compliance have focused primarily on patient resistance to treatment, medication side effects, or the complexity of the medication regimen. This study of patient visits in a large psychiatric clinic found that, because of failure to schedule appointments or to notify receptionists of rescheduled appointments, physician noncompliance was as important as patient failure.
mesh_terms: D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs