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The terms compliance and adherence are interchangeable among healthcare practitioners, but there are numerous differences between the two terms. Adherence involves patients actively choosing to follow the prescribed treatments as they are responsible for their own health, whereas compliance usually indicates passive actions whereby the patients follow a list of orders from the physician.
- Medication compliance and persistence: terminology and ...
Results: Medication compliance and medication persistence...
- Medication compliance and persistence: terminology and ...
outcomes in terms of morbidity or mortality for the patient and to an increased economic burden on the healthcare system. c) The terminology used when discussing medication-taking behaviours is complex, with three commonly used definitions. • Compliance – ‘the extent to which the patient’s behaviour matches the
- Executive Summary
- Aconceptualmapandresearchagenda
- Terminology–compliance,adherence andconcordance
- Terminology recommendations
- Determinantsofmedication-taking behaviour
- Theme 1: Explaining medication-taking behaviour
- Theme 2: Patient-provider interactions and communication in healthcare
- Theme 3: Societal policies and practice
- Doing the right thing: the normative theme
- Theme 4: Interventions to facilitate adherence
- Conclusions and Recommendation
- Mappingresearchquestionsontothe SDOresearchpriorities
- Patient choice 7
- Adherence in vulnerable groups
- Disclaimer
RobHorne,JohnWeinman,NickBarber,RachelElliott, MyfanwyMorgan,AlanCribb&IanKellar Thisreportisaproductofascopingexercisecommissioned bytheNHSNationalCoordinatingCentreforService DeliveryandOrganisation(NCCSDO)withthefollowing aims: Summarisecurrentknowledgeaboutthedeterminants ofmedication-taking. Constructaconceptualmapoftheareaofcompliance, adhere...
Thesizeandscopeoftheliteratureonmedication-taking canmakeitdifficultforpractitionerstofindtheirway around.Thecomplexityofthetopicisillustratedbythefact thatthereareatleastthreetermsincommonusage: compliance,adherenceandconcordance. Thisdocumentdoesnotinvolveanexhaustivereviewofthe primaryliterature–thishasalreadybeenresearchedto goodeffectandisbeyo...
Complianceisdefinedas:‘Theextenttowhichthepatient’s behaviourmatchestheprescriber’srecommendations.’ However,itsuseisdecliningasitimplieslackofpatient involvement. Adherenceisdefinedas:‘Theextenttowhichthepatient’s behaviourmatchesagreedrecommendationsfromthe prescriber.’Ithasbeenadoptedbymanyasanalternative tocompliance,inanattempttoemphasisethatt...
Werecognisedthatthesethreetermsarenowused interchangeablyandthatthishasgeneratedsomeconfusion. AfterdiscussionwithintheProjectteamandwithourExpert PanelandConsultationGroups,werecommend‘adherence’ asthetermofchoicetodescribepatients’medicinetaking behaviour. Werecognisethatadherenceisnotalwaysa‘goodthing’as aprescriptionmaybeinappropriateornotrefle...
Wegroupedtheliteratureonadherenceintofourcore themes:explainingpatientbehaviour:patient-provider interactions;societalpolicyandpractice;andinterventions. Theseareunderpinnedbycomplexnotionsofthevarious, andsometimesconflicting,thingsweconsidertobe‘good’ aboutprescribingandmedicinetaking.Wepausetoexplore theseissuesinbetweenthepolicyandinterventiont...
Theresearchevidenceshowsthatvariationinadherence cannotbeexplainedbyarangeoffixedfactors,suchasthe typeorseverityofdisease;sociodemographicvariablesor personalitytraits.Adherenceispositivelycorrelatedwith incomewhenthepatientispayingfortreatmentbutnotwith generalsocio-economicstatus.Furthermore,providingclear information,althoughessential,isnotenou...
Ourreviewoftheempiricalevidenceidentifiedsurprisingly fewstudiesthatsystematicallyevaluatethedirecteffectsof theprescribingconsultationonmedicationadherence behaviour.Furtherbasicresearchisneededtoclarifythe effectsoftheconsultationonmedicationadherence,the extenttowhichconsultationskillstrainingcanimprove adherence,andhowdifferentmessagesfromdiffe...
Theimpactofnonadherenceatasocietallevelisprobably substantial,butexistingdataintheUKaretoopoortofully characterisethis,possiblybecause,untilrecently,the managementofadherencehasnotfeaturedstronglyinNHS policy.However,severalcorepolicyinitiativessuchasthe ExpertPatientprogramme,NationalServiceFrameworksand MedicinesUseReviews(MURs)nowplacepatientsel...
Underpinningthiswholereportaretwoquestions–whatis goodprescribingandwhatisgoodmedicinetaking?These questions,incontrasttoquestionsofeffectiveness,have hadlittleindepthexplorationintheliterature,yettheymust beaddressedtoinformpoliciesandpractices.Wefound thesequestionstoberelevantacrosseachofourfour themesanddevotedaseparatechapterofthereport (Chapt...
Theliteratureonadherenceinterventionshasbeenthe subjectofthreemajorsystematicreviewsoverthepastfive years,culminatinginaCochranesystematicreviewin2002. Aspartofourscopingexerciseweextendedthescopeofthe Cochranereviewbyincludingstudiesthatmetthestringent qualitycriteria,butwerenoteligibleforinclusioninthe Cochranereviewbecausetheyhadmeasuredadherenc...
Theevidencefromthisandpreviousreviewsisthat nonadherencetoappropriatelyprescribedmedicinesisa globalhealthproblemofmajorrelevancetotheNHS. Currentlevelsofnonadherenceimplyafailureto addresspatients’needsandpreferencesandrepresent afundamentalinefficiencyinthedeliveryand organisationoftheNHS.Nonadherenceprevents patientsfromgainingaccesstothebesttre...
KeyresearchquestionsmappedontoSDOresearchpriority areas
Inwhatwayscanandshouldpatients’initialchoices andpreferencesbemodified? Inwhatwaysandunderwhatcircumstancesshould patientchoiceformthebasisfordecisionmakingin prescribingandmedicine-taking? Whataremosteffectivewaysofrepresentingevidence forthelikelybenefitsandrisksofmedication? Howcanwetailormedicinesinformationtomatchthe requirementsofindividualpa...
Considerationofvulnerablegroupscutsacrossthe explanatorythemesandisrelevantformostresearch questions,regardlessofwhetherresearchistargetedat explainingindividualbehaviour,investigatingcommunication inhealthcare,societalpolicyandpracticeorevaluating interventions.Workinthisarearequiressystematicreviews oftheavailableliteraturefollowedbyempiricalstud...
✪ This report presents independent research commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The views and opinions expressed therein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NHS, the NIHR, the SDO programme or the Department of Health
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 ...
- Patricia Dolan Mullen
- 1997
If the prescription is appropriate, then this may represent a loss to patients, the healthcare system and society. The costs are both personal and economic. In this guideline 'medicines' is used as a general term to refer to prescribed medicines that are self-administered and includes tablets, syrups, ointments, eyedrops and suppositories.
Results: Medication compliance and medication persistence are two different constructs. Medication compliance (synonym: adherence) refers to the degree or extent of conformity to the recommendations about day-to-day treatment by the provider with respect to the timing, dosage, and frequency. It may be defined as "the extent to which a patient ...
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Compliance may be defined as the extent to which a patient takes medication as prescribed. The term compliance is often used interchangeably with adherence, but compliance is preferred because it implies a responsibility shared by both patient and physician (692,693). Compliance rates are often reported as percentage of prescribed dose of ...
