The prescription of medicines is a core element of the delivery of modern health care.
Medicines are widely used not only to relieve symptoms and cure conditions but to prevent …

This chapter summarises current knowledge about the causes of nonadherence. It draws on
a range of narrative reviews and reports beginning with the seminal work of Haynes and …

Patient compliance refers to the willingness and ability of an individual to follow health-
related advice, to take medication as prescribed, to attend scheduled clinic appointments …

Non-adherence to medicines is common, with convincing evidence for adverse effects on
patient health and costs to health systems. At least half of reported non-adherence is …

Medical terminology is at continuous process of change since the language of medicine
needs the rapid incorporation of new terms or changing the existing ones to be in touch with …

Hippocrates described the importance of patient compliance over 2000 years ago, but the
issue continues to generate intense debate [1]. Dictionary definitions often disregard the …

Background Patients' non-adherence to medical treatment remains a persistent problem.
Many interventions to improve patient adherence are unsuccessful and sound theoretical …

Medication prescribed but not consumed represents a huge loss in drug and prescribing
costs and an enormous waste of expensive medical time. In this article we discuss what is …

Objectives—To develop and administer a practical, valid and reliable tool to measure
attitudes to concordance in medicine taking, a new concept where decisions depend on an …

It is thought that between a third and a half of all medicines1 There are many causes of non-
adherence but they fall into two overlapping categories: intentional and unintentional …