Editorial

Trying to Do the Right Thing: Compliance, Adherence, and Concordance

Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD

  • Psychiatric Annals
  • December 2010 - Volume 40 · Issue 12: 591-591
  • DOI: 10.3928/00485713-20101201-03
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Abstract

As we try to help our patients and to relieve their distress, we frequently prescribe medications. We duly write prescriptions. Our patients bring their prescriptions to the pharmacy (or we e-prescribe, and they just pick up their meds, or better yet, the meds come in the mail). Then, they bring their meds home, and they take them … or they don’t. Or they do something in between taking and not taking, perhaps taking sometimes and not taking other times. Or taking most of the time and not taking a little of the time. Or taking a little of the time and not taking most of the time.

doi: 10.3928/00485713-20101201-03

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