Patient Compliance: A Key Element in the Success or Failure of Treatment

The success of a physician-prescribed medication treatment depends largely on patient compliance. Indeed, compliance with regime is particularly crucial for chronic disease treatment. failure personal protocol often results not from physician misdiagnosis or mistreatment, but errors and omissions in application. This review article discusses as key determinant broad array diseases ranging medical domains: internal diseases, dermatology, orthopedics, endocrinology, dentistry, ophthalmology others. takes holistic approach an attempt to reveal the psychological elements that influence non-compliance overall medicine specifically any given domain. Understanding role crucial, such parameter ability cure.