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Treatment Adherence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Barry Blackwell
Barry Blackwell*
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Department of Psychiatry; Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45431, USA
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A large part of medical practice is complicated by two problems; the degree to which treatments are specific (the placebo problem) and the extent to which they are implemented (the adherence problem). Depending on setting and circumstance, up to half of the benefits of treatment are either non-specific or never obtained. This review considers the problem of adherence in the context of use of medication in psychiatry.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 129 , Issue 6 , December 1976 , pp. 513 - 531
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1976 

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