Compliance and Persistence with Osteoporosis Medications

This chapter reviews five key controversies about research into compliance and persistence with osteoporosis treatments, and provides supporting evidence about those controversies. All researchers who study compliance and persistence with osteoporosis medications agree on one issue: compliance and persistence with osteoporosis medications are dismal. Currently, medication possession ratio (MPR) is the most commonly used measure of compliance. Significant empirical evidence illustrates the problems we face in helping patients remain compliant and persistent with osteoporosis medications regardless of delivery system or dose duration.

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Author Deborah T. Gold Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychia ...