[INEFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF THERAPEUTIC REGIMEN AND NONCOMPLIANCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH EPISODES WONCA].

UNLABELLED: At the present time, failure to follow prescribed treatments is a problem of deep draft of health systems. The problem is both clinical and economic. Nurses are main responsible, within the health system, to ensure the proper monitoring of therapeutic guidelines agreed with the patients, by themselves or by other health care professionals. The aim of this work is to determine the health problems (expressed through the ICPC-WONCA classification) in which occurs more often no tracking treatments, following a nurse methodology, specifically relating ICPC codes with patients diagnosed with <<ineffective management of therapeutic regimen>> or <<Non-compliance>> of NANDA-I classification.

METHOD: It has been made a descriptive and retrospective study. The data used are drawn from the clinical history of OMI-AP (manager) of all patients of all health centers in the Madrid region, during 2006, 2007 and 2008.

RESULTS

36.1 % ofpatients who fail or do not properly handle the treatment were classified with ICPC code K86 uncomplicated hypertension; 33.2 % with non-insulin dependent diabetes T90; 8 % with A13 treatment fear; and 5.6% with Obesity T8. There are no differences between men and women regarding compliance and the age group over 50 years is having major problems in monitoring their treatment.