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| Silva,Nilcéia Lopes da; Ribeiro,Eliane; Navarro,João Luis; Zanini,Antonio Carlos. |
| Low patient compliance with pharmacotherapy remains one of the greatest challenges for success of treatments, especially in chronic diseases, since it can negatively influence treatment effectiveness and patient quality of life, increase health expenses and decrease productivity of the patient. Compliance is an important but complex issue in clinical practice. Its complexity begins with the difficulty in adopting terminology that can express its exact meaning. Moreover, many methods to evaluate compliance have been established but no consensus exists on which method should be considered the gold standard. Additionally, socioeconomic, disease and therapy-related factors, healthcare team and system related-factors and patient-related factors can... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Pharmacotherapy/compliance with treatment; Medicines/use; Chronic diseases/therapy; Pharmacists/interventions. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502011000100002 |
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