Drug Compliance

The health ailments are as old as mankind. The food articles, herbs and roots of some plants had been used as drugs for thousands of years and there existed a schedule for patients' compliance. The drug compliance refers to the willingness of a patient to follow the health related advice to take drugs/medicines as advised prescribed and to attend the follow up appointments. The drug compliance is must for the assessment of the effect of a treatment. The failure of a treatment may depend on the failure of a drug/medicine itself or due to poor compliance.

The problem is more prevalent in well educated people as compared to least educated class. Patients' commitment to drug compliance is a major health issue with outcomes restricted to the status of drug resistance, failure of a treatment, morbidity and mortality. The patients' adherence to treatment schedule or drug compliance is must for better health outcomes.