title: Understanding patients' beliefs and goals in medicine-taking.
abstract: The traditional paternalistic approach to health care ignores the individual needs of patients and results in many of them failing to take up treatment. Concordance, which centres on enabling patients to make informed decisions about all aspects of health care with the support of health professionals, is one approach increasingly being introduced in health-care settings.
authors.forename: Jo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tsoneva
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shaw
mesh_terms: D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010358:Patient Participation