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A Constructive View Of The Non-Compliant Patient: Understanding Barriers To Compliance And Proposed Solutions, Barbara Smith

Theses Digitization Project

The health care industry is currently experiencing many changes. Managed care is altering the way health care is delivered through advances in technology and new approaches in financing. As part of this transition, importance will be placed on patients becoming better consumers and participants in determining their health care service needs. The focus of this study is on the non-compliant patient and the many factors that revolve around this topic.