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The problem of patient compliance with treatment for respiratory infections

Patient compliance describes the degree, to which a patient follows treatment regimen. At present, non-compliance with medical recommendations is one of the key problems for outpatient practice. Even in case of respiratory infections, patients often violate the prescribed treatment regimen, which leads to growth of ineffective treatment cases, complications, and is also accompanied by a high risk of selection of drug-resistant infectious organisms and rise in expenditures for managing patients. The most common mistakes made by patients include the change by patients of the prescribed antibiotic dosing regimen and premature termination of antimicrobial therapy. Factors affecting patient compliance are extremely diverse. Among them are factors associated with treatment and a disease, patient-associated factors of «doctor patient» contact, and demographic predictors of low compliance, drug dosage frequency. The most important factors affecting adherence to treatment are duration of therapy; drug tolerance/safety; doi: 10.21518/2079-701X-2019-15-63-69