Case Study: Improving Medication Adherence: Educating patients about their medicationsScripps Mercy Hospital decided to measure their patients? adherence with postdischarge medications in order to determine whether the education provided to patients who were not proficient in English needed improvement. See ...
Another aspect that can be helpful with patient motivation—and this can go back to what I was just saying about motivational interviewing—but redirecting patients’ goals can be really helpful when it comes to medication. Many of them have been on these medications since the ‘90s and have...
education about treatment options. How do we best include our patients and their families in those kinds of discussions?Beth M. Faiman, PhD, CNP: I mentioned before, as much as I try to have [those], Katie brought up the excellent point, that not everybody has access to all of the ...
These biosimilars, in our perspective, are expanding the potential as to how far the healthcare dollar could go with these patients. And trying to help them understand that these medications are safe and effective, and that these medications will give them the same results as what they would ...
Children at four of the clinics with recent asthma attacks were randomly assigned to either the education or control group to test if patient education and guided asthma care would improve outcomes for patients. Modern medications were made available to both groups to see if training in the US ...
Furthermore, patients often get treatment for asthma exacerbations at urgent care centers and EDs, which then refer patients back to their primary care doctors instead of to an allergist. “They just don’t have that direct connection,” Bayuk said. “That’s a big obst...
To curb unnecessary antibiotic use, clinicians should educate patients on the potential harms of its use on individuals rather than society or antibiotic resistance, researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. Previous rese
Patients will also have a better understanding of their condition and their medications, and will be less likely to return due to misunderstandings. Practicing Evidence-Based Medicine The use of evidence-based medicine (EBM) can be another method to reduce health disparities. According to the ...
for the Society of Behavioral Medicine in March 2006, HopeLab presented results from a trial with 375 patients age 13-29 years to determine how eff ective Re-Mission was in helping them adhere to cancer medications and increase their knowledge about cancer, quality of life, and self-efficacy...
they are more likely to identify patients presentingwith the signs and symptoms at an early stage in chemical orbiological terrorist attacks. Osteopathic physicians are also inan excellent position to educate their patients about bioter-rorism and WMD preparedness. Osteopathic medical schoolsare in a...