The impact of patient compliance on effective asthma management

Low rates of patient compliance pose a major challenge to effective asthma management. Non-compliance depends on many factors, including the patient's own treatment goals, beliefs about therapy, social and economic factors, administration route, convenience of device, and concerns about side-effects. Poor patient compliance may also be due to a discrepancy between the goals of the clinician and those of the patient. Clinicians tend to focus on …