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Adherence and Compliance
FACTS:
❱ Genetic and lifestyle factors influence an individual’s adherence and compliance to therapy.
❱ Poor medication adherence exacts a heavy toll by resulting in unnecessary illness, disability, and premature deaths, and costs as much as $290 billion a year in unnecessary healthcare spending.
❱ Nearly 1 in 5 Medicare patients discharged from the hospital is readmitted within 30 days – that’s approximately 2.6 million seniors at a cost of over $26 billion every year.
❱ Adherence rates range from 25% to 40% among older adults. Cost-related medication nonadherence is a serious problem in the United States.
Our board Certified Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners
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Evaluate and improve medication adherence for patients with chronic disease.
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Recommend and individualize patient outcome goals based on affordability and efficiency.
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Employ patient‐centered and team based care for complex patients with adherence and compliance issues.
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Utilize motivational interview and encourage patients to self-manage while acknowledging the challenges.
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Improve star ratings rely on medication adherence in chronic conditions such as Diabetes, High blood pressure, Hypercholesterolemia, Osteoporosis and so on.
❱ Optimize medication regimen through comprehensive review and reconciliation.
❱ Reduce cost barriers.
❱ Provide patient education, motivation and engagement.
❱ Improve adherence by changing patient’s perception of cost, concerns, side effects, burden of taking medications.
❱ Increase understanding of benefits and commitment to prescribed therapy.
❱ Identify duplication of therapy, unnecessary therapy or additional therapy needed.
❱ Ensure that medications are appropriate, there is no overdosing or under dosing of medications.
❱ Dose medication once daily rather than multiple times daily.
❱ Utilize combination drug product instead individual drugs.
❱ Improve conditions and decrease medication burden.
