Medication non-compliance.
Medication non-compliance is a perplexing, pervasive and poorly understood problem. Historically, the medical community viewed it as an act of defiance. But in recent years nurses have challenged that position, instead seeing non-compliance as behavior that can be intentional or unintentional; detrimental or, on occasion, beneficial.
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D004358:Drug Therapy; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D016312:Treatment Refusal