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com·pli·ance. (kŏm-plī'ăns) 1. A measure of the distensibility of a chamber expressed as a change in volume per unit change in pressure. 2. The consistency and accuracy with which a patient follows the regimen prescribed by a physician or other health care professional. Compare: adherence (2) , maintenance.
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patient compliance. Pharmacology The degree of adherence of...
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patient compliance. Pharmacology The degree of adherence of a Pt to a prescribed diet or treatment, and whether the Pt returns for re-examination, follow-up or treatment. See Directly observed therapy, Good Pt. Cf Bad Pt, Noncompliance.
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The new definition of compliance given in this concept analysis provides clarity and directions for future inquiry and nursing practice. The findings are beneficial for nurses in constructing a tool to predict compliance behavior for a given patient and condition, including a relationship model that focuses on the role of healthcare providers and patients.
Patient compliance is the extent to which the actual behaviour of the patient coincides with medical advice and instructions; it may be complete, partial, erratic, nil, or there may be over-compliance. To make a diagnosis and to prescribe evidence-based effective treatment is a satisfying experience for doctors, but too many assume that patients will gratefully or accurately do what they are ...
Oct 31, 2018 · Therapeutic compliance is the patient’s behaviors (in terms of taking medicines, following diets, or executing lifestyle changes) that coincides with the health care provider’s recommendations for health and medical advice. Ji J, Sklar GE, Min Sen Oh V, and Li SC. Factors Affecting Therapeutic Compliance: A review from patient’s perspective.
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Mar 8, 1997 · At long last the “compliance problem” may be getting a new name and, with it, a new view of the patient's role in the doctor-patient relationship. A report published this week by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain's working party on medicine taking recommends that “concordance” should replace the term “compliance.”1 Although substitute terms have been suggested and ...
