Patient’s Compliance: an Overview
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چکیده
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 patient compliance are discussed in this article. Compliance aids such as latest packing, technologies and pictograms etc. has also been discussed in relevant sections.
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