underadherence

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noun

Insufficient adherence to a treatment.

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Meanings

noununderadherence (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemedicineInsufficient adherence to a treatment.

    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.

    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, →DOI, page 1214

Origin

From under- + adherence.

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