Compliance/Adherence/Concordance - the extent to which a patient acts in accordance with the prescribed interval and dose of a dosing regimen.
Persistence - the duration of time from initiation to discontinuation of therapy.
Adherence: may also be defined as the combination of both compliance and persistence.
The validated Morisky questionnaires can help you identify non-adherence in patients, and gives an insight into the nature of any non-adherence.
4 points questionaire:
- Do you ever forget to take your medication?
- Are you careless at times about taking your medication?
- When you feel better, do you sometimes stop taking your medication?
- Sometimes, if you feel worse when you take your medication, do you stop taking it?
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