Volume 73 Number 2 March 2006	back to contents

Attending Physician, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Services at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, NY; and Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Address all correspondence to Fred Rosner, M.D., 750 Elvira Avenue, Far Rockaway, NY 11691.

Accepted for publication April 2005.

ABSTRACT

This essay examines the subject of patient noncompliance with prescribed medications or other health regimens and its possible causes, and discusses possible solutions. Noncompliance or nonadherence to prescribed medical regimens may have serious detrimental effects on the patient's health and quality of life, and may lead to further morbidity or mortality. Proposed solutions to the problem of noncompliance are many (Table 3). If aggressively pursued, they may help improve the health of individual patients and the general community.

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