CCCC 2008: Patient Compliance Debate

At Copenhagen Compliance & Concordance Conference 2008, which took place on May 30 in Copenhagen, Denmark, a number of interesting compliance issues was discussed. The conference gathered a number of leading experts, as well as interesting stakeholder representatives within the compliance circuit. Their input gave valuable insight into compliance.

“Studies on patient compliance interventions show few positive results in improving adherence and clinical outcome,” started Brian Haynes, professor at McMaster University in Canada and author of the Cochrane Review on adherence, out by stating.

Jakob Axel Nielsen, Danish Minister of Health and Prevention, stated: “Compliance is a topic with great implications for the national economy and of course – an even more important – for patient safety and quality of life.”

Read the extract from the many interesting presentations here.