Morsani College of Medicine

Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery

Posts Tagged Follow up appointments

Do You Stick With It? Do you need a sticky-note reminder?
December 6, 2010

Adherence to treatment, sticking with it when topical or oral treatment is prescribed generally improves results.  In general, people tend to follow directions in taking or applying medicines 50 to 80 percent of the time, meaning 20 to 50 percent do not. Several recent studies have demonstrated this lack of compliance.  Many times with chronic skin conditions such as acne […]