Home exercise adherence calculator
Two calculators. The first turns a patient's completed sessions into an adherence rate and tells you what to do about it. The second estimates what unfinished courses of treatment cost your clinic over a year.
1. Patient adherence rate
57%
Partial adherence
17 of 30 sessions · 13 missed
Roughly half the prescribed dose is landing. This is the most common band in practice, and the most rescuable: shorten the programme, cut it to the two or three exercises that matter, and tie it to an existing daily habit.
A common convention in rehab research is to treat 80% or more of the prescribed dose as "adherent", 50–79% as partial, and under 50% as non-adherent. Thresholds vary between studies, so use this as a shared language with the patient rather than a verdict.
2. What drop-off costs the clinic
84
unbooked sessions per year
21,000
in unrealised session fees
Assumes early-stopping patients complete about half of their planned sessions. It is an order-of-magnitude estimate for planning conversations, not an accounting figure — swap in your own drop-off rate if you track it.
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Measuring adherence is only useful if something follows it. The patient compliance guide covers the twelve clinic behaviours that reliably move this percentage, and the exercise library gives you short programmes that patients will actually finish.