underadherence en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From under- + adherence.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Insufficient adherence to a treatment.
Because of the substantial personal, social, and economic consequences of patients’ underadherence to medication regimens, the prevalence and impact of underadherence to antipsychotic regimens have been studied extensively.
2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, →DOI, page 1214: