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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"patient adherence"”.
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Improving our Understanding of Patient Adherence in Gout
Medication adherence remains problematic in gout management. Previous work demonstrates that adherence can be classified into intentional and unintentional adherence. Intentional nonadherence is driven by patients’ beliefs and offers the opportunity for early interventions. This thesis aimed to …
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Patient adherence to smartphone weight loss applications: A dietitian perception study
… smartphone weight loss apps results in increased patient/client adherence and increased weight loss.</p> <p>Methods: An online survey was completed by 2,532 weight management dietitians. Paired t-tests were used to determine dietitians’ perceptions on patient/client adherence and weight loss using …
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Development of a Novel Validated Tool for Predicting Patient Adherence to Prescribed Medication
Patient nonadherence to medication harms patient outcomes and raises costs via wasted and unnecessary treatment (Osterberg and Blaschke, 2005). However, current adherence measures are far from optimal (Vitolins et al., 2000), and adherence enhancing interventions rarely successful (Haynes et al., …
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How do speech-language pathologists perceive their influence over patient adherence regarding dysphagia recommendations?
… regarding their potential to influence patient adherence to dysphagia recommendations. Five SLPs holding the CCC-SLP were interviewed in an open-ended format, and the transcriptions of the interviews were the data for this study. The SLP interviews provided a glimpse into SLP …
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Seeing is Believing: Using Visualisations of Medical Disease and Treatment to Improve Patient Adherence
… information is essential to inform adaptive patient health behaviours, such as adherence to treatment. Despite developments in our understanding of pathological processes and innovative treatments, patient comprehension and health literacy remains problematic. The format and delivery of …
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Dysphagic patient compliance with thickened liquid recommendations
… light of the growing prevalence of dysphagic patients on Speech-Language Pathologists’ caseloads and the frequent prescription of thickened liquids as a treatment strategy (Garcia, Chambers & Molander, 2005; Low, Wyles, Wilkinson & Sainsbury, 2001; Robbins, Nicosia, Hind, Gill, Blanco, & …
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Osteoporosis and osteopenia management in women: survey, case-referent study, and interventional exercise trial
… study looking at osteoporosis treatment and patient adherence of selected women in Baton Rouge. Results showed that osteoporosis management depended partly on patient adherence. Barriers to patient’s adherence varied from physiological to psychological reasons. Physicians need to provide more …
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Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: A Quality Improvement Project
… been associated with many factors related to patient adherence. Communication built on enriching interpersonal relationships between health care professionals and the people they serve may improve patient adherence in overcoming the unique and individualistic barriers to screening tests. …
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Post-vasectomy semen analysis: Follow-up of patients at three Cape Town Metropole facilities.
… worldwide. Our study was aimed at determining patient adherence to the post-vasectomy follow-up plans and whether the procedures were done successfully by the different categories of surgeons at three facilities in the Cape Town Metropole. Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review of …
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Medical Management Adherence as an Outcome of Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Setting
… that genetic counselors contribute to positive patient outcomes. Client adherence to medical management outcomes has not been previously studied as a possible outcome of genetic counseling. Patient adherence may result in improved medical outcomes. </p><p>Objectives: To determine if the …
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A terápiamenedzsment-programok létjogosultsága, eredményessége és gazdaságossága = Rationale, Effectiveness and Economy of Therapy Management Programmes
… of such a programme impacts the levels of patient adherence. I will try to compare the 3, 6 and 12-month persistence values of the patients that participate in the therapy management programme with those of the control group.
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Evaluation of adherence to antiretroviral therapy using efarivenz as a marker
Background: Patients on antiretroviral (ART) are expected to be at least 95% adherent to their treatment, as this will increase their chances of achieving treatment success (maximum and durable suppression of HIV-1 viral load); non-adherence may lead to the development of HIV drug resistance, which …
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Gastric resident systems for large dose drug delivery
Lack of medication adherence is a worldwide problem. As many as 50-70% of patients have trouble following treatment recommendations. Whereas adherence is driven by many factors including the socioeconomic status of a patient and the quality of the health care team, drug regimen complexity also …
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Investigating the Influences of Person-Centeredness, Credibility, and Sex on Comforting Communication through EMR Systems
… mandated to implement EMR systems. Since then, patients are increasingly turning to online environment for communicating with their physicians. The primary purpose of this study was to study the influences of various factors on the outcomes of comforting communication through EMR systems. In …
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Socioeconomic Status and the Management of Chronic Conditions: Implications for the Socioeconomic Gradient in Health
… significant income and race disparities in patient adherence to various components of the diabetes treatment regimen. The mechanisms largely responsible for these disparities are differences in patients' education levels and gaps in insurance coverage. For a few components of the regimen, …
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Microneedle gastric retention for drug delivery
… are associated with many challenges, including patient needle-phobia and patient adherence to a medication regimen. Biologic molecules, in particular, must be injected due to degradation by enzymes in the GI tract. Previous scientists have developed a method with the potential to inject …
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The natural history of low grade squamuous intra-epithelial lesions (LSIL) in women attending Groote Schuur Hospital Colposcopy Clinic
… in HIV positive and negative women to determine patient adherence to colposcopy clinic in women with LSIL Methods: This is a retrospective, descriptive, cohort study of women who were referred to the colposcopy clinic with a cytological diagnosis of LSIL and followed for a minimum period of 2 …
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Controlled Substance Agreements:The Patient's Perspective Explored Through the Theory of Human Caring
… supports their effectiveness in increasing patient adherence, education, or legal protection for providers.</p> <p>Research Question: How do patients receiving long-term opioid treatment characterize the controlled substance agreement process?</p> <p><strong>Method</strong>: This …
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The effect of distance to health facility on the maintenance of INR therapeutic ranges in rheumatic heart disease patients from Cape Town
… the maintenance of INR therapeutic ranges in RHD patients. Part B: elaborates on the background and highlights the importance of this research by exploring the existing theoretical and empirical literature relevant to the topic. It describes the importance of the maintenance of the INR therapeutic …
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