2. Contents
• Counseling
• Need of Counseling
• Compliance and non compliance
• Impact on drug regiments
• Reasons for non compliance
• How to improve this
• Directions for patient
• Role of pharmacist and Health care professional
• Overall positive results
3. Introduction:
• Safe and effective drug therapy most frequently
occurs when patients are well informed about
medications and their use
• Drug compliance, drug regiments, drug therapy-role
of pharmacist and health professionals
• Non compliance-regarding diet, exercise, and
smoking or drinking habits
• e.g. Non compliance with anticonvulsant therapy
results in uncontrolled seizures
Omission of dose of insulin may be life
threatening
Overdose result in toxicity
4. Method of assessment of compliance
• Interrogation (Standard questionnaires)
• Residual tablet counting
• Urine markers(added in dose)
• Drug analysis
5. Reasons for non compliance
• Poor Standard of labeling
• Inappropriate packing
• Complex therapeutic regiments
• Nature of medication
• Deliberate deviations
6. Strategies for improving compliance
• Simplification of the therapeutic regiments
• Improving standards of dispensing practice
• Development of suitable medication packaging
• Supplementary labeling
• Patient counseling and education
7. Precautions and directions for medications and
administration instructions
• Disease States
• Selection and administration of OTC products
• Printed drug information
