Observance Clinic The case of diabetes

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Pages: 188
ISBN : 2-7420-0595-1
Printed in: French

The aim of this book is to carry out a clinical study of non-observance, taking diabetes as an example.
It sets out to understand why people fail to take prescribed drugs and to comply with their doctors' recommendations, to find out how frequently this happens, the mechanisms involved, the various forms and different approaches to treatment.
Such an observance clinic could have other areas of application in medicine. The problems related to observance bring out an ethical issue which all nurses and carers must face when confronted by patients who find that prescribed treatment has an adverse effect on their quality of life. How can respect for people's free will be reconciled with the wish to help them?