The term concordance is sometimes preferred over compliance or noncompliance when speaking of a patient following a prescribed plan of care because it is:
1. judgmental.
2. nonjudgmental.
3. caring.
4. noncaring.
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A term that does not judge the patient is concordance. Instead, this term emphasizes the collabo-ration among the patient, family, health-care provider, and pharmacist.
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