Concordance is not synonymous with compliance or adherence

Concordance, compliance, preference or adherence

The realization that patients do not always do what their doctor recommends has led to a whole area of research looking into why this is so and how to counteract it. If we assume that the practitioner is right (an area of research in itself, of course!), then how do we get the patient to follow that advice? If you have high blood pressure, but don't take the tablets is this remiss or empowering...

Concordance , adherence and compliance in medicine taking

“Calcitriol” Is Not Synonymous with “Vitamin D”

Regarding the recent article by Shaygannejad et al. [1], we are writing to express serious concerns about the portrayal of the intervention and the authors' interpretation and discussion of the findings. Of predominate concern is that the authors utilized a calcitriol intervention in their study but referred to it as " vitamin D ". The erroneous use of the term " vitamin D " is of concern for s...

From compliance to concordance:

with health care instructions has come in for increasing criticism over the last 20 years. A recent, influential review of research in this area argued for a shift away from compliance to a more negotiated approach to the medical encounter, termed concordance.1 The concordance model views medical interactions as a potential opportunity for both parties to take part in decisions about treatment,...

Absence of certainty is not synonymous with absence of risk.

Bad things happen. Although human society has been remarkably successful in developing techniques to preempt some bad events, the successes have raised expectations. As we have devised ways of reducing some risks, smaller risks seem more significant. Simultaneously, technological solutions to some problems have created new risks of their own. The environmental risks that have resulted, both fro...