Compliance in asthma
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Assessing compliance in asthma patients.
Compliance is usually defined as "the extent to which the patient's behaviour in terms of taking medications, following diets, or changing life style, coincides with the clinical prescription" [1]. This is a non-operative description which only refers to the patient, saying nothing about who gives and the quality of what is given, is often used to put the blame on the patient and to reassure th...
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BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown poor compliance with regular drug therapy in children and adults with asthma. In preschool children the parents supervise and are responsible for drug administration, but little is known of compliance in this group. In addition, there are few data on the patterns of drug use of inhaled prophylactic asthma therapy or of the relation between compliance and s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Medicine
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0954-6111
DOI: 10.1016/s0954-6111(99)90260-3