Source: http://brainblogger.com/2016/06/16/looking-inside-our-heads-brain-imaging-and-patient-adherence/
The ultimate goal of healthcare professionals is to achieve well-being in patients, which, as a matter of course usually requires patients’ adherence (also termed compliance) to prescribed therapies. Despite the best intentions and efforts of healthcare professionals, resolution of issues cannot so readily be achieved if patients aren’t adherent in following prescriptions. Therapeutic adherence includes not only patient compliance with taking medications, but also typically with changes in diet, exercise, and lifestyle.
According to a study conducted in 2004, patient compliance with therapies prescribed by healthcare professionals is historically quite low. One study concluded these figures to be the average rates of compliance:
- Compliance rate of long-term medication therapies is estimated to be between 40% and 50%
- The rate of…
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