Improving Patient Treatment Adherence A Clinician's Guide /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bosworth, Hayden. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Family medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Medicine/Public Health, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5866-2

Virtually all medical and behavioral health treatments require at least some degree of patient adherence to succeed. Despite the relationship between health behaviors and outcomes, little attention is paid to developing proven methods for identifying and addressing patient non-adherence. Improving P...

Table of Contents:

• What is treatment adherence?
• Physical function/exercise adherence
• Diet and adherence
• Medication adherence
• Smoking cessation
• Primary prevention adherence
• Contraception and adherence
• Chronic pain and adherence
• Adherence and psychological therapies
• Adherence and depression in the primary care setting
• HIV/AIDS and infectious disease and adherence
• Adherence and substance abuse
• Cardiovascular and stroke rehabilitation
• Special populations: Children, parents and adherence
• Special populations: Older adults, caregivers, end of life and adherence
• Special populations: Complex chronic diseases
• Conclusions and policy implications.