Despite the close attention paid to medication adherence by healthcare providers, pharmaceutical marketers and manufacturers, and health educators, it continues to be an enormous problem with both ...

Non-adherence to medical guidelines is a long-standing public health concern, believed to be responsible for a large number of avoidable hospitalizations and deaths—as well as elevated health care ...

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between antidepressant medication adherence and short-term disability (STD) in an employed population. Study Design: Retrospective observational cohort study of ...

Non-adherence to antihypertensive medication is the most important cause of uncontrolled blood pressure and is influenced by multiple interrelating factors. Understanding the complexity of medication ...

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them. — C. Everett Koop, M.D. Adherence to (or compliance with) a medication regimen is generally defined as the extent to which patients take medications ...