Concordance and Adherence in Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: An Expert Interview With...

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Dr. Sachs: The biggest correlate [of noncompliance] is the belief that a mood disorder is more like pneumonia than like heart disease, which means that people have a bias toward an acute treatment model as opposed to a chronic-illness treatment model for managing their condition. That brings us into the realm of what we call concordance, the degree to which the doctor and patient are in agreement about what it makes sense to do.