Doctors assume that when they give a patient a prescription the drug willfbe taken, as directed. But patients do not always take their prescribed drugs, and if there is no therapeutic response to a given dosage regimen poor compliance must be considered. Hippocrates warned that patients may 'often lie about taking their medicines.
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Aronson et al. (1992) studied this question.
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