[Compliance research in the 80's].
Compliance remains a subject in the focus of international attention, which is, undoubtedly, due both to the predominance of chronic diseases within the morbidity spectrum and the rising cost in all national health systems. The research during the last decade can be summarized under two aspects: Greater emphasis is laid on the compliance on the part of the physician and its effect on the patient's collaborative behaviour; on the other hand, only a few papers are published nowadays in which the "disobedient" patient is looked for by means of a sociological inventory. Rather, the relationship between physician and patient and its constituent elements have been recognized to be the most important bundle of causes. Many efforts have been made to differentiate further.