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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.
Clinical Trials. Non-compliance is the failure to adhere to the study protocol. For example, in the Physicians Health Study about 15% of the subjects randomized to receive low-dose aspirin did not regularly take the capsules they received, and about 15% of the subjects in the placebo group were actually taking aspirin on a fairly regular basis.