<\/span><\/h2>\nAccording to Medical records in different places and countries, inappropriately performed or inappropriately used practices can be found. Of course quantities vary, and, in some cases, they are very few. However, they add up to approximately a 14 %, on average.<\/p>\n
It is important to point out that patients do share part of the responsibility, for example, they can decide adherence to a prescribed medication regime or not.<\/p>\n
But, still, some therapeutic regimes or advices that are cheap, painless and easy, are been forgotten by physicians, because they do not prescribe them. For example, the aspirin use, for patients with coronary artery disease.<\/p>\n
Another example concerns antihypertensive medications. On one hand, during the last years, a lot of drugs have been developed, but, although this type of drugs are among the most frequently prescribed, the blood-pressure control rates among hypertension patients are very low, even in a country as the US.<\/p>\n
The good news is that physicians can intervene to keep their patients on the road. Specific studies on this subject show results that represent nearly a 40 % increase in patient engagement.<\/p>\n
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