Getting patients to participate actively in their medical care is something we all strive for as health professionals. As a practicing physical therapist, getting partake the Physical Therapy (PT) process no different.

BACKGROUND Previous reviews of the literature on medication compliance have confirmed the inverse relationship between number of daily doses and rate of compliance. However, compliance in most of these studies was based on patient self-report, blood-level monitoring, prescription refills, or pill count data, none of which are as accurate as electronic monitoring (EM). OBJECTIVE In this paper,...

BACKGROUND The challenge of understanding factors influencing compliance with injectable treatments is critical as injectable biologics/medications become more common. OBJECTIVE Understanding compliance issues for long term self-injectable treatments, using a chronic condition (osteoporosis) as a model. RESEARCH DESIGN A qualitative study to generate hypotheses regarding compliance issues f...

Background Hand hygiene is one of the key ways of preventing healthcare-associated infections (HCAI), especially in patients with cancer. The aim of this study was to determine nurses' compliance with hand hygiene guidelines in caring for patients with cancer in a selected center in Isfahan, Iran, in 2016. Materials and Methods The present observational study was conducted on nurses in a canc...