adherence and attaining routine blood tests. Pharmacists provide services in anticoagulation management. Examples of services provided by pharmacists include in-pharmacy fingers sticks and INR testing , education on patient self monitoring/management, and adjustment of doses based established collaborative ...
PATIENT discharge instructionsRIVAROXABANPurpose: Due to a lack of necessary monitoring with rivaroxaban, patients have fewer opportunities for education, adherence reinforcement, and follow-up. If rivaroxaban is taken incorrectly, patients are at increased risk for adverse events. The objective was to ...
(around one third) may refuse this option.15 In addition, adherence (the extent to which a patient acts in accordance with the prescribed dosing regimen, such as dose, timing, and frequency; also known as compli- ance) and persistence (the extent to which a patient continues to use a ...
Medications are vital pieces in patient care and achieving glycemic control [4,5,6]. Though medication adherence is often be assumed to be primarily patient-related, it is multifaceted and complex [4]. In addition to patient factors (e.g., dosing or titration misunderstandings, poor treatment ...