Medication compliance means; weather patient takes their medication as prescribed. Habit of medication noncompliance grow specially when patients are at home during a self-care. Behavior of taking medication is complex and it requires multiple functional strategies to improve a medication compliance. This paper is about problems and solutions for medication compliance. The solutions for medication compliance are education before medication, using reminder tools, use of compliance promoting packaging and taking help of family and friends. Description of Problems Patients are feel difficulty of medication compliance in long term treatment because patient have to be a regular on their medication. However, old people also require an extra attention on medication compliance because sometime noncompliance create a critical situation for them. Sometime patient takes a few dosage of medication and they stop taking medication as soon as they feel well which create a complication on long run. The implications of non-adherence are evident in the outcomes for many diseases, including HIV, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol (Scholefield, …show more content…
Sometime old age people is not capable of memories all medicine, time to take medicine and open a hard tighten bottles. Therefore, old people require compliance promoting packaging tool which dispense a proper medicine automatically and remind them to take a medicine on time, and easy to operate. Systems such as the e-pill automatic medication dispensers and organizers offer additional features to help ensure dispense of the right medications, the right dosage, and the right time for up to 28 days (Kim et al., 2015). Tools like e-pill is extremely helpful to an older people for medication compliance and it is also helpful on long-term treatments at home because this tool automatically dispense an appropriate count of
...teract. Many of the medications are very powerful in and of themselves. This article also presents additional approaches to medicating the elderly, including focus on reduction of number of medications prescribed. Both articles present the importance of considering the normal physiological changes within geriatric patients.
Overview: E-prescribing systems enable the electronic transmissions of prescriptions to pharmacies from the provider's office. The promise of e-prescribing in regard to patient safety is reduction in the time gap between point of care and point of service, reduction in medication errors, and improved quality of care. This paper will give a brief overview concentrating on the reduction in medication errors and the challenges that remain with electronic prescriptions.
According to Dr. John Steiner, a researcher at Kaiser Permanente, very few patients are fully capable of complying with all their doctors’ requests and or recommendations. To illustrate his point, he constructed a chart for a theoretical 67-year-old patient with diabetes, hypertension and high blood pressure. He then tabulated what it would take to be “adherent” with all medical recommendations: Five prescriptions to be filled monthly, getting to and from the pharmacy, (assuming he even has insurance), diet (cutting down salt and fats), exercise (three or four times per week), make it to doctors’ appointments, blood tests, check blood sugar, and on top of that, remembering to take the pills every morning and then again every evening eve...
Your family and friends mean well when they remind (and sometimes nag) you to take your medication every day.
A computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system can provide many enhancements to preventing medication mistakes. Using the CPOE will allow all health maintenance providers to have an easily accessible list of all current medications the patient is on and will reduce the process of ordering a medication for a patient, which will lessen the probability of an error occurring throughout the procedure. This organization will also allow pharmacists, nurses, and physicians a form of communication by electronic means. In summary, the combined effort of healthcare professionals and electronic support can greatly reduce medication
Omission of medications is a common issue in the field of nursing. When patients miss their scheduled dosage of medication, it can cause harm. Nurses take an oath to do no harm to their patients. When a nurse purposely omits a medication, they are not properly acting within their nurse’s scope of practice. A nurse cannot make the decision to hold a medication based on ones believes, because they were interrupted, or because of time constraints. “The administration of medications is a major part of the role of the clinical nurse and is an activity prone to error” (Johnson, Tran, & Young, 2011 p. 553).
Secondly, I would write a journal article and have it published in the pharmaceutical’s bulletin to include a well-known nursing journal. These journal articles would contain the findings of the research and suggestions on how the nursing staff can help the patients improve the compliance of taking prescribed medication.
During the years of 1999-2000 only 6.3 percent of Americans used five or more medications, and then in the years of 2007-2008 about 10.7 percent of Americans used five or more medications, that is a 4.4 percent increase. In the last decade alone the use of five or more medications has increased 70 percent. Creating the stronger need for healthcare providers to communicate about the care of their patients is becoming evident. However in recent years more hospitals are using electronic medical records that can be sent to each healthcare provider, this helps the patient relive some of the stress in remembering what all medications they take and the dosages they are taking. Also healthcare providers can now see when their patient was last in to see another doctor and what there diagnosis was creating a more stable health system and less medication reactions. Although there is always room error but if every hospital adopts this system there is a good possibility that polypharmacy may be a thing of the past. Polypharmacy is becoming a fatal epidemic for the elderly, it is pertinent to know the risks and ways to prevent
Prescription medications take on greater purpose later on in life. However, if not monitored, they can potentially cause more harm than good. To prevent potential accidents, it's important to keep a safety checklist for senior medication.
It was Hippocrates who many centuries ago noticed that patients were not always taking their medication as prescribed, decennia later, patient nonadherence is identified as a serious public health problem. Although many terms have describes patients’ inability to follow medication treatments, the term compliance has been – and still is – broadly used. In line with the ever present biomedical model the World Health Organisation (WHO) defined compliance as “The extend to which a person’s behaviour [in terms of taking medications, following diets, or executing life-style changes] coincides with medical or health advice.” making the assumption that advice from a medical expert is to be taken as the best option for the patient and needs to be followed accordingly. The word carries some negative connotations with it, as it tends to frame the patient in a more passive way, “yielding” to the doctor’s advice. (Vermeire et al., 2001, Crawford et at., 2014).
Electronic-prescribing, often referred to as e-prescribing, is a fairly new, innovative way for physicians and other medical personnel to prescribe medications and keep track of patients’ medical history. Not only has e-prescribing enabled prescribers to electronically send a prescription to the patients’ pharmacy of choice, in the short amount of time it has been available, it has significantly reduced health care costs, not only for the patient, but for the medical facilities as well. In 2003, e-prescribing was included in the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) which jumpstarted the role of e-prescribing in healthcare. It has proven to significantly reduce the yearly number medication errors and prescription fraud, and its widespread publicity has helped build awareness of e-prescribing’s role in enhancing patient safety. Although it has not been in practice for very long, e-prescribing has already made a positive impact in the field of health care.
Compliance with therapies recommended by a physician is a primary element towards a successful treatment. Failure to adhere can lead to serious complications which not only affects the patient but also the physician and most importantly the health care system. Even though compliance and adherence are relatively similar, there is an extensive difference between one from the other. According to World Health Organization (2003), adherence signifies “the extent to which a person's behaviour - taking medication, following a diet, and/or executing lifestyle changes, corresponds with agreed recommendations from a health care provider.” On the other hand, compliance is the amplitude to which a patient lacks any means of communication with a health care provider regarding the prescribed medication. Unlike compliance, adherence requires physician-patient collaboration and patient’s consent to prescribed medications written by a health care provider. Inevitably, both compliance and adherence are very alike and are required for a successful treatment of chronic illness or disease.
According to Kane, Kishimoto & Correll (2013) patients who are non-adherent have a higher rate of hospitalization, relapses, antibiotic resistance, increased disease progression and overall poor quality of care. The rate and risk for hospitalization for patients diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes and congestive heart failure was double than that of adherent patients with the same healthcare conditions. Additionally, non-adherence results in approximately 125000 patient deaths annually in America (Iuga & McGuire, 2010). As a result, healthcare professionals and stakeholders should identify interventions to address the high rate of non-adherence. The specific interventions should be based on the underlining factors that cause
Medicines are chemicals which are used to cure, stop or prevent diseases, illnesses and ease symptoms. Some medicines are produced in the laboratory by mixing chemicals, while others are found in nature, such as from plants. With the progression of medicines, doctors have been able to save lives and cure several diseases. Not taking medication can prevent a person from not doing everyday activities and also lead to other health problems. There are many reasons why people do not take medicines which include the cost, side effects and forgetfulness. Medicines can be available as over the counter where supervision is not needed; or from a pharmacy where a pharmacist will ask a series of questions. Some medicines require a prescription from a GP or other healthcare professional. In many countries, before a medicine can be used for treatment, it has to be licensed. This license can only be issued if the medicine meets the standards of safety and quality (League, 2014).
Some of the physical changes that occur to the individual affect their health. As a result, the person may have some health issues. Sometimes, pharmaceutical interventions are necessary to maintain their health. However, many times the use of many medications, the time when to take them, and which food inhibit the absorption of the drugs become confusing for the elderly people. (The confusion about medications can happen to young and middle age people too!). As a result, someone may need to assist them