Journal for Patient Compliance (JPC) is a peer reviewed Journal. JPC looks into the ideal way in which patient compliance could be enhanced. The Journal targeted towards Pharmaceutical Companies, Physicians, Pharmacies, Health Care Workers & Insurance providers is an ideal platform for all stakeholders in healthcare to communicate, negotiate, learn and share methods and strategies to help patients adhere to their medication regime.

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Introduction

Utilizing electronic health records to help patients manage their own health care.

Patient Compliance interview

Patient adherence is a crucial but often-overlooked component of therapy. This four-part series reviews the importance of adherence in chronic care. In Chapter 3, we introduce a model of adherence in primary care and the "Ask - Adapt" pattern of addressing adherence at the original visit and at follow-up.

Videos presented by: Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association, Healthcare Performance Consulting, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Virginia.

Patient Adherence

Patient Adherence: Challenging the CME Community

This webinar provides guidance and tips on how to integrate patient adherence into continuing medical education curriculum, particularly for activities focusing on chronic disease. Contributors include Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association, Healthcare Performance Consulting, the University of Virginia, and the University of Cincinnati. For further information, please contact Amy Holthusen at aholthusen@ipmameded.org

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Patient Adherence & Compliance - a recommended read

Improving Patient Compliance Strategic Medicine, January 1998

By Mary S. Stone, MA; Sheryl J. Bronkesh, MBA; Zachary B. Gerbarg, MD; and Steven D. Wood, PhD

For most physicians, it is frustrating when patients do not follow our recommendations and instructions. We expect compliance, even though there is clear evidence from clinical studies that we shouldn't.* At the same time, managed care organizations are increasingly focused on empowering their members with information and self-care skills in order to help them become better utilizers of health care resources. And our patients themselves are changing. Today, depending on where we practice, active and informed patients may comprise the majority of our patients. This article is written to offer physicians an approach based on adherence rather than compliance as a way to improve patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes.

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