Patient adherence is the extent to which the patient follows the instructions of his physician.
The reasons patients don’t take or discontinue their medicines is multifactorial and depends on the disease and drug regimen. Hence our approach too has to be multipronged rather than one size fits all. First we need to ask, has the patient been adequately counselled on the disease process? Has he understood what the consequences of not taking his medication
eg. Discontinuing TB treatment midway could result in him developing resistance to the medicines and it will not be effective next time.
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