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Family Practice Vol. 8, No. 4, 412-423
© Oxford University Press 1991

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Do We Know How to Influence Patients' Behaviour? Tips to Improve Patients' Adherence

NURIA HOMEDES

Faculty Research Instructor, School of Medicine, University of Arizona Tucson AZ85716, USA

This paper discusses the importance of achieving patients' compliance with a health care provider's recommendations. It includes a summary of the different approaches and meanings given by different researchers to the term compliance. Different methods of measuring compliance are described. The aim of the paper is to provide health care professionals, especially physicians, with the necessery background information to interpret compliance studies and, more importantly, to present different strategies that have been proved to be effective at improving patients' compliance (adherence) with medical recommendations.


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