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 ...

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 ...

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 ...