Adherence to medication sounds like a straightforward goal, but it becomes complicated and perplexing when it is monitored and enforced. Read FDA Approves Pill That Tracks Whether You Took Your Meds by Maggie Fox (NBCContinue reading
Category: Medical Adherence
Neuroeconomics, The Rational Man, & Medical Noncompliance
The Brain, Money, and Patient Compliance Mind Games by John Cassidy (New Yorker Sept 18, 2006) does not directly address patient compliance or adherence, yet it does offer valuable insight in the process of decision-making, includingContinue reading
How To (Correctly) Not Take Medications As Prescribed
Want to improve your healthcare and the healthcare system at large? … and, in the process, decrease medical costs? … without changing doctors, moving into an ashram, or giving up any of your disgusting vices?Continue reading
Are Intelligent & Knowledgeable Patients Ever Nonadherent To Treatment?
Introduction After talking about patient compliance with clinicians and civilians for 30 years, I can report with confidence that the prevailing beliefs about treatment adherence are reasonable, based on common sense, and steadfastly maintained inContinue reading
Not Following Treatment Recommendations Is Pervasive & Catastrophic
Introduction I have long had an abiding interest in what is most often been labeled “patient compliance.”1 The common definition, the degree to which a patient correctly follows medical advice, is misleadingly simplistic and itselfContinue reading