Trash talking... For many people in many situations their inability to be able to engage in meaningful, productive conversation or to communicate a message clearly is a major barrier to living their best life, maximising their potential and developing healthy and productive relationships.
1. Definition of adherence. In terms of TB control, adherence to treatment may be defined as the extent to which the patient's history of therapeutic drug-taking coincides with the prescribed treatment (7) . Adherence may be measured using either process-oriented or outcome-oriented definitions.
Adherence to therapy. Adherence to dietary therapy outside of trials is poor unless there is high patient acceptance and incentive. A Saskatchewan analysis8 found that only 50% of patients take their lipid lowering drugs for more than 4 months; at one year, only 25% of patients were continuing their medications (mostly statins).