underadherence
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underadherence (uncountable)
- (medicine) Insufficient adherence to a treatment.
- 2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, , page 1214:
- Because of the substantial personal, social, and economic consequences of patients’ underadherence to medication regimens, the prevalence and impact of underadherence to antipsychotic regimens have been studied extensively.