Do you face Patient non-compliance during your practice? Here, we talk about patient non-adherence, why we need to improve patient compliance, and a few pointers for doctors that may help them increase the level of patient compliance. Although, long term medications are prescribed to many patients for treatment of diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, and hypo/hyper thyroidism etc., many do not follow the prescribed treatment. Few days back, there was a news article about death of person who took rat poison mistaking it for tonsils medication that had been prescribed to him. Could this accident have been avoided?
Yes, absolutely! The patient just had to check medication label before taking the dose. This incident was a result of patient’s negligence to take the correct medication, and is a classic example of patient non-compliance. Daily doctors encounter similar incidents, where…
