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		<title>Patient Compliance And Behavioral Economics</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/09/03/patient-compliance-and-behavioral-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where Is The Quintessential American Compliance Setting? Hint: It&#8217;s Not The Doctor&#8217;s Office According to Robert Cialdini, writing in Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, the quintessential American compliance setting is the Tupperware Party.1 We&#8217;ll get to the &#8220;why&#8221; behind that claim and what the medical community might learn from get-togethers in suburban living rooms dedicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Patient Compliance: Patients Who Lie</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/15/beyond-patient-compliance-patients-who-lie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. - Hippocrates1 Launching A Guerrilla Attack On Patient Compliance &#8211; The Battle Of Patients With Pants On Fire The publication of  Lots Of Patients Fib, Sometimes By Accident, a  nicely done article by Karen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Patient Compliance To Side-effectology</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/12/from-patient-compliance-to-side-effectology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the same principles currently prevalent in the field of patient compliance were applied to the study and management of side-effects, &#8230; Intercosmic Journal Of Treatment Side-Effectology Searching for the cause  of treatment side-effects &#38; its cure Articles 381st study shows same  side-effect rate  of  1 to 98%  &#8211; Researchers perplexed, obtain grant for further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Compliance &#8211; So Wrong For So Long</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/09/patient-compliance-so-wrong-for-so-long/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/09/patient-compliance-so-wrong-for-so-long/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve published a second post, Patient Compliance &#8211; So Wrong For So Long, at the eyeforpharma.com site. For ongoing AlignMap readers, this will be a new perspective on an old theme &#8211; the failure of the concept of patient compliance to provide reliable or valid information about a patient&#8217;s response to treatment recommendations. Specifically, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tragedy Of Patient Compliance</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/05/17/the-tragedy-of-patient-compliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 22:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been invited to post on the eyeforpharma.com site. In hopes of extending my audience, I&#8217;m giving it a shot. This is a trial and error process. We&#8217;ll see how it works out. The initial post can be viewed at The Tragedy Of Patient Compliance.1 Readers who viewed this page also viewedHow To Fix Patient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes Named Official Metaphor In Patient Compliance Is A Myth Campaign</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/05/11/emperors-new-clothes-named-official-metaphor-in-patient-compliance-is-a-myth-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 18:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unicorns, Atlantis, Easter Bunny, Hooker With Heart Of Gold, World Champion Chicago Cubs In Runners-Up Spots To illuminate the flaws  inherent in  the  contemporary notion of patient compliance, I have, in previous posts, invoked such cultural references as the Ptolemaic cosmological model,  Rumpelstiltskin, Johnny Cash&#8217;s classic  &#8220;A Boy Named Sue,&#8221; The War of the Worlds, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naming Rumpelstiltskin And Treatment Adherence</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/12/23/naming-rumpelstiltskin-and-treatment-adherence/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2008/12/23/naming-rumpelstiltskin-and-treatment-adherence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across the Rumpelstiltskin Phenomenon, a concept that is pertinent to my contention that the focus on renaming the phenomenon now most commonly known as patient compliance or treatment adherence is unlikely to prove an advantage, even if the renaming is accomplished. The Rumpelstiltskin Phenomenon From: A Dictionary of Psychology  (2001).  Author: Andrew M. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dose Of Denial &#8211; Patient Compliance Blog Doppelganger?</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/12/09/dose-of-denial-patient-compliance-blog-doppelganger/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2008/12/09/dose-of-denial-patient-compliance-blog-doppelganger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would someone with a thermometer check whether hell has frozen over? I just finished posting More Patient Compliance Myths Debunked, in which I endorse points made by  the chief scientist of the Aardex Group. Last week, or goodness sake, I published The Post Is Not Brought To You By Pfizer &#8211; It Just Seems That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Patient Compliance Myths Debunked</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/12/09/more-patient-compliance-myths-debunked/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2008/12/09/more-patient-compliance-myths-debunked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because so many misunderstandings and misconceptions about patient compliance are considered common sense and consequently go unchallenged, presenting them as &#8220;myths&#8221; can be an effective, if perhaps hackneyed, means of correcting misperceptions. At least I hope so. One of the most popular pages on the AlignMap.com site has long been the discussion of my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Patient Compliance Article That Doesn&#039;t Know It&#039;s A Patient Compliance Article</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/10/06/the-patient-compliance-article-that-doesnt-know-its-a-patient-compliance-article/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2008/10/06/the-patient-compliance-article-that-doesnt-know-its-a-patient-compliance-article/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adherence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alignmap.com/?p=1024</guid>
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		<title>If Compliance Changes To Adherence In The Forest Of Medical Literature, &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/10/02/if-compliance-changes-to-adherence-in-the-forest-of-medical-literature/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2008/10/02/if-compliance-changes-to-adherence-in-the-forest-of-medical-literature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abe Lincoln1 What Does Abraham Lincoln Have To Say About The Uncivil War Between Compliance and Adherence Proponents? Another quotation pertinent to the contentiousness over the appropriate name for the phenomenon most clinicians call patient compliance has occurred to me. This one is attributed to  Abraham Lincoln. More about the provenance later. In most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Say Compliance, I Say Adherence, &#8230; Who Cares?</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/10/01/you-say-compliance-i-say-adherence-who-cares/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2008/10/01/you-say-compliance-i-say-adherence-who-cares/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[concordance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alignmap.com/?p=967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve run across another batch of articles in which the authors have flashed onto the epiphany that &#8220;adherence&#8221; is an altogether morally, ethically, and spiritually superior term to the malignant, inhumane, and generally repugnant &#8220;compliance&#8221; for designating the degree of a patient&#8217;s cooperation with a given treatment recommendation.1 Given that I&#8217;ve been on a rant [...]]]></description>
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