Denial, delay and disappointment: discovering and overcoming the causes of drug errors and missed appointments.

摘要: Abstract Although the medical management of epilepsy is possible with effective therapeutics, such complicated by patient errors self-medication. Efforts to improve adherence prescribed regimens anticonvulsant medication have not been extensively studied, although several promising results obtained. Research on has more extensive in other chronic conditions, as hypertension, that similarities their demand for long-term treatment, often absence symptoms, drugs may produce side effects. From combined research factors associated drug errors, we analyzed characteristics patient, regimen, illness, and - provider relationship. The most areas improving compliance appear be influence family friends, complexity treatment patient's belief severity Strategies can target 3 sets factors: predisposing including patients' motivation perception, enable patients comply easily, reinforce compliance. Physician-directed interventions tailored each these categories factors, taken together, make up a comprehensive health education program. A model evaluations presented.