Patient Compliance with Medications: Issues and Opportunities
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (697 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0789026090 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Helpful tables, figures, and extensive references are also included.Topics in Patient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities include: the prevalence of noncompliance costs of noncompliance drug therapies that lead to noncompliance measuring compliance models to evaluate patient compliance evaluation methods ethical considerations health professionals’ roles in compliance disease state management future considerations much morePatient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities is insightful, crucial information for health professionals, educators, and students.. These widespread problems cause health professionals to agonize over how to try to make sure patients comply with medication instructions. Patient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities goes beyond the standard pat explanations and mostly ineffective quick solutions usually offered for the complicated noncompliance issue. Respected pharmacist and author Jack Fincham and other noted experts provide insights, surprising data, and effective solutions to a challenge nearly all health professionals encounter.Patients often use drugs they get from a multitude of sources, making the capability of monitoring drug use difficult. Patient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities
Galen, MD, MPH, FASCP, Professor and Head, Department of Health Administration, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Intellectually stimulating. A concise, up to date, and well written review of the issues and challenges facing healthcare providers relative to the enormous global problem of medication non-compliance. One chapter I particularly enjoyed was Chris Cook's, 'Models to Evaluate Patient Compliance'. This overview of theoretical frameworks was particularly helpful in understanding the problem. -- Robert S
Topical This is a major problem in the US and world with some 50% of written prescriptions not taken properly or not filled. Well written and factual with suggestions. Highly recommended