Shared Decision-Making Process Of Adherence

‘Adherence’ is ‘the extent to which the patient’s behavior matches agreed recommendations from the prescriber’ (1) .We prefer it to the term
‘compliance’ because it includes, but does not presume, the possibility of patient involvement in the treatment decision making process. We do not use the term ‘concordance’ because it assumes a shared decision making process between patients and doctors (2) . Although shared decision making would ideally occur in all clinical encounters, this cannot be