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Non‐compliance in general health care
Author(s) -
Claydon Bridget E.,
Efron Nathan
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
ophthalmic and physiological optics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.147
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1475-1313
pISSN - 0275-5408
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-1313.1994.tb00006.x
Subject(s) - compliance (psychology) , general partnership , interdependence , set (abstract data type) , health care , nursing , medicine , psychology , business , computer science , social psychology , political science , finance , law , programming language
An increased interest in non‐compliance has been demonstrated by the great number of papers recently published on the subject, A review of the relevant literature shows a pattern emerging of at least one third of clients being non‐compliant. This can result in a hazard to health, a waste of health resources and much frustration for practitioners and clients in many areas of health care. There are multiple factors which appear to he related to non‐compliance in a complex and interdependent way. These factors can be described under three main headings: the client, the treatment and disorder, and the clinic interactions. Compliance is summarized as the shared responsibility of practitioner and client in a health care partnership. The purpose of this paper is to review the extensive literature on compliance in general health care and to present a set of guidelines for the enhancement of compliance in the form of a general model.