Comments on: Why Today's Treatment Adherence Paradigm Must Be Destroyed – Part 1 http://alignmap.com/2009/06/23/why-todays-treatment-adherence-paradigm-must-be-destroyed-part-1/ Beyond Compliance, Adherence, & Concordance - Supporting The Patient's Implementation Of Optimal Treatment Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:58:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Allan Showalter, MD http://alignmap.com/2009/06/23/why-todays-treatment-adherence-paradigm-must-be-destroyed-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-4241 Allan Showalter, MD Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:46:13 +0000 http://alignmap.com/?p=1230#comment-4241 While I would be happy to blame Big Pharma (or, for that matter, academic medicine, physicians, the AMA, ....) for the lack of success in compliance enhancement, no one in any field has demonstrated significantly positive results except when labor-intensive, complex combinations of efforts are invoked. While I would be happy to blame Big Pharma (or, for that matter, academic medicine, physicians, the AMA, ….) for the lack of success in compliance enhancement, no one in any field has demonstrated significantly positive results except when labor-intensive, complex combinations of efforts are invoked.

]]> By: Matthew Hunt http://alignmap.com/2009/06/23/why-todays-treatment-adherence-paradigm-must-be-destroyed-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-4240 Matthew Hunt Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:12:46 +0000 http://alignmap.com/?p=1230#comment-4240 Agree that most current 'adherence programmes' are tokenist / ignored at best, but that's because they've been designed to be convenient for pharma companies rather than meaningful for patients. A lack of insight and commitment rather than a fundamentally incorrect premise, methinks. Agree that most current ‘adherence programmes’ are tokenist / ignored at best, but that’s because they’ve been designed to be convenient for pharma companies rather than meaningful for patients.

A lack of insight and commitment rather than a fundamentally incorrect premise, methinks.

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