The Top Ten Patient Compliance Points: #6
#6. There is no universal antidote for noncompliance
AKA The Universal Truth About Universal Panaceas
It’s the rare coach of a team sport who even claims to treat all his or her players the same; teachers acknowledge the need to individualize education as much as possible; and, perhaps most telling, marketers espouse as their ultimate goal a sales message personalized for a specific potential customer. Yet, the medical literature dealing with patient compliance often expresses perplexity, frustration, and, on occasion, amazement that a given intervention (whether that intervention is patient education, cues & reminders, free medical services, easy access to services… ) improves compliance among some but not all patients.
That different patients react in different ways to healthcare recommendations and compliance-enhancing efforts is a concept that hardly rises to the level of a profundity but must, it seems, be evangelized.
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