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Improve your patient's health through a fresh view of their behaviors
Patients who use over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription medicine often do not take the drugs as intended, sometimes to the detriment to their health and well-being. 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 tackles this tough issue by exploring in detail the range of noncompliance behavior, the negative impacts the behavior has on patients as well as society at large, and practical ways to influence people to take their medicine for optimum health. 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. Other problems can also interfere with a patient's health, such as a patient borrowing drugs from family or friendsor even not taking them at all simply because he or she are unable to pay for them. 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. Leading authorities describe the range of reasons for a patient's behavior and provide practical strategies that strike at the root of the problem. 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 more
Patient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities is insightful, crucial information for health professionals, educators, and students.
Contents
About the Author -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Scope of Noncompliance and Other Issues -- Drugs, Pharmacists, and Insurance -- Self-care -- Self-medication -- Patient Compliance Issues -- Noncompliance As an Alternative -- The Consequences of Noncompliance -- Factors Affecting Compliance -- Dosing -- Devices to Aid Patient Compliance -- Communication -- Manufacturers -- Summary -- Chapter 3. Drug Therapies Leading to Noncompliant Activity - Jayashri Sankaranarayanan -- Introduction -- Medication Adherence or Compliance: Definitions, Estimates, Measurement, and Interventions -- Theoretical Aspects -- Structure and Demand of Drug Therapies -- Medical-condition-related Factors -- Medication-therapy-related Factors -- Patient-related Factors -- Health Professional Attributes and Health System Factors -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- Chapter 4. The Costs of Noncompliance -- Introduction -- Asthma -- Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease -- Diabetes -- Infectious Disease -- Seizures -- The Elderly -- Antipsychotic Therapy -- Transplantation Pharmacotherapy -- Chapter 5. Definitions and Measurement of Compliance -- Definitions of Compliance -- Noncompliance: Negative Connotations -- Measurement of Compliance -- Methods to Detect Compliance -- Physicians' Estimates of Their Patients' Compliance 85 Can Physicians Be Noncompliant? -- Chapter 6. Models to Evaluate Patient Compliance - Christopher Cook Health Belief Model -- Theory of Reasoned Action -- Theory of Planned Behavior -- Social Cognitive Theory -- Transtheoretical Model -- Other Models -- Conclusions -- Chapter 7. Methods to Impact Patient Compliance -- Types of Impacts on Compliance -- Specific Ways to Improve Compliance -- Getting into the Habit of Complying -- Other Considerations -- Summary -- Chapter 8. Bridging the Gap Between Provider and Patient Variables: Concordance -- The Concordance Movement in Concept and Action -- Concordance -- Chapter 9. Ethics of Compliance -- Capital Punishment and Assisted Suicide -- Noncompliance As a Patient Prerogative -- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPPA) Act and Impacts Upon Compliance -- Information Technology -- Questionable, If Not, Unethical Practices -- Pharmaceutical Company Research and Clinical Trials -- Chapter 10. The Role of Health Professionals in Influencing Patient Compliance - Richard Schulz -- Recognize Limitations and Biases -- Make Sense of the Vast and Contradictory Literature -- Commitment to the Development of Best Practices Regarding Medication Adherence -- Recent Trends in Compliance Research -- Summary -- Chapter 11. Disease State Management in Older Persons with Hyperlipidemia - Louis Roller, Jenny Gowan -- Lipid-lowering Agents -- Adherence to Lipid-lowering Therapy -- Scenario -- Identification of Drug Therapy Problems -- Possible Changes in Therapy and Benefits/Problems -- Possible Changes in Therapy -- Chapter 12. Current and Future Considerations -- Achieving Perfection? -- Complicated Considerations -- Physician and Drug Effects -- Questions (Important Factors) to Consider -- Future Considerations with Emerging Drug Therapies -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Index.
