Patient education has been instrumental in bringing about tremendous improvements in hypertension-related mortality, morbidity, life expectancy, and life quality. Patient counselling has evolved from an adjunct to medical therapy to an intervention in its own right. This was a four months prospec...
Previous studies on the benefits of NMS have been focused on costs, including evaluation of cost-effectiveness of the service and pharmacist work. In England, for example, pharmacists provided telephone counselling to 500 patients who received a new medication for a chronic disease (eg, asthma, di...
The objective of the present study is: to know the impact of patient counselling on medication adherence and quality of life and to study the level of medication adherence in hypertension with co-morbidity condition patients. This study was conducted for a period of 6 months (November 2014 ...
Patient-centered communication is a means for engaging patients in partnership. However, patient centered communication has not always been grounded in theory or in clinicians' pragmatic needs. The objective of this report is to present a practical approach to hypertension counselling that uses the 5...
Self-management interventions (SMIs) may be promising in the treatment of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 (T2DM). However, accurate comparisons of their relative effectiveness are challenging, partly due to a lack of clarity and detail regarding the interventio
There were inconsistencies in the suggested indications for corticosteroids. The perceptions of physicians as revealed in this survey highlight the need of a handy reference about the clinical data on corticosteroids that may enable the physicians to rationally use corticosteroids. Personal...