Taking Your Medicine
Haworth Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7890-2858-7 (ISBN)
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Forgetting to take scheduled doses of prescribed medications can cost you time, money, and future health care problems. But remembering what to takeand when to take itcan be difficult when you have so many important things to deal with on an everyday basis. Taking Your Medicine: A Guide to Medication Regimens and Compliance for Patients and Caregivers is a practical guide to the process of taking medications, presenting helpful tips and simple ideas for patients, family members, and health care providers. Author Jack E. Fincham, named by Drug Topics magazine as one of the 50 most influential pharmacists in the United States, offers effective strategies that help patients help themselves by taking an active role in treatment decisions, following treatment plans, and getting involved when problems arise.
According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report, patients suffering from chronic illnesses who live in developed countries achieve a medication compliance rate of only about 50 percent. In developing countries, the rate is even lower. Whether it’s due of a lack of understanding, a lack of motivation, or a lack of concern, the failure to take medication as directed can have serious consequences. Taking Your Medicine: A Guide to Medication Regimens and Compliance for Patients and Caregivers makes taking medication easier, examining organizational, educational, and behavioral impacts on compliance, apprehensions over adverse drug effects and side effects, choosing a pharmacist, specific methods for improving compliance, reasons for noncompliance, considerations in taking medication, and patients’ rights.
Taking Your Medicine addresses:
prescription and OTC drugs
medical conditions affected or caused by noncompliance
generic substitutes for brand name medications
being an informed consumer-10 simple questions for health care providers
dealing with Internet pharmacies
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) regulations
online security of medical information and records
interactions between drugs and other drugs, vitamins, herbal supplements, food and nutritional products, tobacco, and/or alcohol
and much more!
Taking Your Medicine includes charts and tables that provide essential information on treatable chronic diseases and acute conditions, common abbreviations and their meanings, common alcohol warnings, potentially dangerous drugs for elderly patients, pharmaceutical companies that offer medical assistance programs for seniors, and Web sites with specific information for senior citizens, parents and children. It’s an invaluable resource for consumers who take prescribed medication and for caregiversfriends, family members, or health professionalswho provide them with help.
Jack Fincham, one of the world's most influential pharmacists, offers effective strategies that help patients help themselves by taking an active role in treatment decisions, following treatment plans and how to become involved when problems arise
Introduction
Chapter 1. Why Drugs Are Prescribed
Types of Drugs
The Prescription and What it Means
Your Rights Concerning Pharmacists and Physicians
What You Need to Know About Your Prescriptions
Chapter 2. Why Compliance with Medications Is Important
Definitions
Why Compliance Matters
Risks versus Benefits
Is 100 Percent Compliance Always Necessary?
Chapter 3. How to Choose a Pharmacist
Professionalism and Accessibility
Knowledge and Reputation
Honesty and Ethical Behavior
When You Cannot Choose Your Pharmacy
Other Services
Chapter 4. What the Doctor or Pharmacist Needs to Know About Your Health
Medical Conditions
Other Doctors Seen
Other Pharmacies Used
Drugs Taken
Other Considerations
Chapter 5. Dangerous Drug Interactions
General Drug-Drug Interactions
Specific Drug-Drug Interactions
Drug-OTC Drug Interactions
Drug-Herbal Product Interactions
Social Drug Effects on Medications
Drug-Nutrient Interactions
Minimizing the Potential for Drug Interactions
Chapter 6. New Regulations That Impact Health Information You Receive
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
Information Technology and Confidentiality
Chapter 7. Tools or Devices to Aid Compliance
Factors Affecting Compliance
Specific Ways to Improve Your Compliance
Getting into the Habit of Complying
Other Considerations
Chapter 8. When You Should Not Be Compliant
Intelligent Noncompliance
Adverse Drug Effects or Side Effects
Lack of Therapeutic Effects
Drug-Free Improvement
Knowing When You Should or Should Not Comply
Chapter 9. Specific Directions for Taking Your Medications
To Be Taken with Food
Take on an Empty Stomach
Avoid Certain Foods or Drinks
Unique Dosing Requirements with Some Drugs
What to Do if You Forget a Dose
Chapter 10. Other Considerations When Taking Medications
Refrigeration
Storage
Ointments and Creams
Transdermal Patches
Eye Drops
Specialty Dosage Forms
Sharing or Splitting Medications
Outdated Drugs
Off-Label Uses of Drugs
How to Dispose of Unnecessary Medications
Chapter 11. How to Help an Aging Parent with Medications
The Elderly and Noncompliance
Drugs the Elderly Should Not Take
Chapter 12. Summary and Conclusions
Double Checking
Dosing
Your Physician and You
Skipping Doses to Save Money
Medication Assistance Programs
Help for the Noncompliant
Appendix. Web Site Resources
Notes
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.9.2005 |
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Verlagsort | Binghamton |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 476 g |
Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7890-2858-1 / 0789028581 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7890-2858-7 / 9780789028587 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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