Non-compliance in general health care.
An increased interest in non-compliance has been demonstrated by the great number of papers recently published on the subject. A review of the relevant literature shows a pattern emerging of at least one third of clients being non-compliant. This can result in a hazard to health, a waste of health resources and much frustration for practitioners and clients in many areas of health care. There are multiple factors which appear to be related to non-compliance in a complex and interdependent way. These factors can be described under three main headings: the client, the treatment and disorder, and the clinic interactions. Compliance is summarized as the shared responsibility of practitioner and client in a health care partnership. The purpose of this paper is to review the extensive literature on compliance in general health care and to present a set of guidelines for the enhancement of compliance in the form of a general model.
European Centre for Contact Lens Research, Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK.
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D001294:Attitude to Health; D017281:Cost of Illness; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006296:Health Services; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010551:Personality; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D016312:Treatment Refusal / Q000523:psychology