Improving Patient Treatment AdherenceA Clinician's Guide

Virtually all medical and behavioural health therapies require at least some degree of patient compliance to be successful. Despite the link between health behaviours and outcomes, little attention has been paid to developing proven methods to identify and manage patient non-adherence. Improving Patient Adherence to Treatment Recommendations: A Clinician's Guide provides new and updated information on this topic, focusing on practical advice for clinicians that can improve patient adherence to a wide range of treatments. This book is organised by behaviour - covering topics ranging from dietary adherence and smoking cessation to chronic pain, HIV and substance misuse - and looks at the impact of patient non-adherence, including costs, clinical outcomes and health-related quality of life.