Patient satisfaction can impact on compliance with suggested treatments and therefore impact on health outcomes.
It is suggested that these findings reflect asthma associated social stigma impacting on treatment compliance.
Furthermore, the absence of laboratory monitoring could potentially impact on the compliance, which is of the utmost importance in the initial weeks after an acute PE.
Measurement of concordance used a 2 × 2 contingency table (two respondent groups and two response options), so it was not possible to determine whether exclusion of 'NA' responses impacted on either concordance or compliance measurements.
A mesalazine preparation that involves the ingestion of fewer tablets, less often, might therefore be considered likely to impact favourably on compliance with maintenance therapy.
It is therefore reasonable to expect that, in practice, once-daily dosing would impact positively on compliance compared with the twice- or thrice-daily regimens of conventional therapy.
10 11 Therapeutic response to oral iron therapy is not always adequate in pregnant women, due to difficulties associated with oral intake of the tablets and their side effects, which impacts negatively on compliance.
"The outcome could have a material impact on compliance costs, the tax position and cost of funding for the group".
