[Therapeutic compliance and its pharmaceutical aspects. Basic research]

Abstract

In present-day drug therapy, the level of therapeutic compliance is a marked professional problem. Its consequences are a challenge for providers of health care and a concern for pharmacists as subjects working in immediate contact with the general public of patients. The present paper reports an evaluation of the level of compliance and analyses its components. It draws attention to the fact that an insufficient level of compliance considerably contributes to the losses in medical care in every therapeutic area. It also discusses pharmaceutical connections of therapeutic compliance as well as pharmaceutical possibilities of increasing its level.