Compliance in Epilepsy

by Dieter Schmidt

Compliance is usually seen as the extent to which the patient's behaviour coincides with medical or health advice. Compliance carries succinctly different connotations for those who participate in its process. For the patient it may mean taking a drug regularly despite a number of grave reservations, or may mean depleting one's life style from pleasant and rewarding activities. Most of all, compliance requires giving up or curtailing the extent of individual freedom. It is generally accepted that about one-third to one-half of the people who are on chronic medication regimes use their medication in ways that differ from the clinical prescription. For evaluation of the various degrees of compliance it would be helpful to learn more about the risk - benefit ratio of less than complete compliance. All these important points, and more, are presented and reviewed in Compliance in Epilepsy.

182 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988