Concept information
Preferred term
medication adherence
Definition
- Medication adherence or compliance describes patient medication-taking behavior and is defined as the degree to which a person's taking of medication corresponds with health or medical direction, as noted by R. B. Haynes in 1979. Historically, the termcompliance was used as a part of the traditional biomedical model of drug treatment, but it can be interpreted as being pejorative. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health & Aging; Medication Adherence]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/medication_adherence
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