Patient compliance-an overview

Patient’s Compliance: an Overview

Non compliance or low compliance to prescribed medical regimen is an ever present and complex problem, especially for patients with a chronic illness. This may adversely affect the patient health as it causes complications in form of chronic diseases, formation of resistant infections and persistent psychiatric illness etc .Certain issues and causes of non compliance and methods of improving pa...

Compliance Monitoring in a Complex Environment: An Overview

Patient compliance in glaucoma.

Of a randomly selected sample of 40 patients with chronic simple glaucoma 11 were identified as having failed to comply adequately with medical advice. Noncompliers were more likely: to be men, to have had no other medical disorder but glaucoma, not to rank glaucoma as most troubling if they had another illness, to have experienced side effects from the treatment, and not to have appreciated th...

An Overview of Candiduria

Candida microorganisms frequently exist as saprophytes on the external genitalia or urethra, however, yeast in measurable quantities are found in <1% of clean voided urine specimens. The overall frequency of Candida infections in hospitals has increased by 200% to 300% in the last decade, such that in a general hospital 5% of urine cultures may yield Candida species, and in tertiary-care center...

An Overview on Tuberculosis

بیماری سل یک عفونت باکتریایی مزمن است که توسط مایکوباکتریوم توبرکلوزیس ایجاد شده و توسط تشکیل گرانولوما در بافتهای آلوده مشخص می گردد. شایعترین مکان بروز بیماری، ریه ها می باشند. هر چند که سایر ارگانها نیز ممکن است، درگیر بیماری شوند. سل یک بیماری جدید و ناشناخته نیست. این بیماری در گذشته به عنوان کشنده شماره یک در ایالات متحده محسوب می شد و اکنون نیز به عنوان یک عامل مهم مرگ در کل جهان مطرح است.