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Online resources to learn more about patient adherence
Improving patient compliance
Mary S. Stone, MA; Sheryl J. Bronkesh, MBA; Zachary B. Gerbarg, MD; Steven
D. Wood, PhD www.hsmgroup.com/info/compli/compli.html
This article from the January 1998 issue of Strategic Medicine lists
steps for negotiating a treatment plan with patients, including specific questions
to ask that empower patients and promote adherence, and describes the conditions
needed to promote adherence in clinical practice.
The Provider's Guide to Quality and Culture
http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=4.4.0. htm&module=provider&language=English
This resource describes how to provide high-quality, culturally competent
services to diverse populations. The goal is to help clinicians examine their
own behavior and assumptions and improve their communications with patients
from different cultures. The series includes electronic information sheets about
health disparities, readings, exercises, and annotated links to relevant Web
sites. Video scenarios provide excellent examples of clinician-patient interactions.
Patient-centered care for better patient adherence
Robert Lowes
www.aafp.org/fpm/980300fm/patient.html
From the March 1998 issue of Family Practice Management, a publication
of the American Academy of Family Physicians, this article explores how clinicians
can help patients become medical decision makers who take an active role in
their own care.
Motivational Interviewing: Resources for Clinicians, Researchers, and Trainers
www.motivationalinterview.org
Motivational interviewing is defined as "a client-centered, directive method
for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence."
This Web site provides general information about motivational interviewing,
as well as links, training resources, and information on reprints and recent
research.
Motivate Healthy Habits: Improve Your Health and Help Others
http://motivatehealthyhabits.com
This patient-centered Web site helps patients to turn "emotional resistance
into effective motivation." It offers an online course, written materials, and
links to other resources about different ways patients can motivate themselves
to adopt healthier behaviors.
Motivational Practice: Promoting Healthy Habits and Self-care of Chronic
Diseases
Richard J. Botelho, MD
www.motivatehealthyhabits.com/pdfs/MPBookintroChapter1.pdf
Dr. Botelho's book discusses how to change clinician and patient behavior, with
the goal of promoting healthy habits in patients. It organizes multiple resources
in a six-step, problem-solving approach to enhance the clinician's ability to
engage patients in change: building partnerships, negotiating an agenda, assisting
resistance and motivation, enhancing mutual understanding, implementing a plan
for change, and following through.
Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication
www.bayerinstitute.org
The mission of the Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication is to enhance
the quality of health care by improving the communication between clinician
and patient through three major activities: education, research, and advocacy.
Adherence to long-term therapies: Evidence for action
World Health Organization
www.who.int/chronic_conditions/adherencereport/en
Intended for policy makers, health managers, and clinical practitioners, this
WHO report provides a concise summary of the effects that poor adherence has
on health and economics. It also discusses the options available for improving
adherence and demonstrates the potential impact of improvement on health outcomes
and health care budgets. The authors hope that the report will lead to new thinking
on policy development and action on adherence to long-term therapies.
Online resources to learn more about patient adherence. JAAPA November 2004;17:32.
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