Patient Compliance with Medications

About the Author -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Scope of Noncompliance and Other Issues -- Drugs, Pharmacists, and Insurance -- Self-care -- Self-medication -- Patient Compliance Issues -- Noncompliance As an Alternative -- The Consequences of Noncompliance -- Factors Affecting Compliance -- Dosing -- Devices to Aid Patient Compliance -- Communication -- Manufacturers -- Summary -- Chapter 3. Drug Therapies Leading to Noncompliant Activity - Jayashri Sankaranarayanan -- Introduction -- Medication Adherence or Compliance: Definitions, Estimates, Measurement, and Interventions -- Theoretical Aspects -- Structure and Demand of Drug Therapies -- Medical-condition-related Factors -- Medication-therapy-related Factors -- Patient-related Factors -- Health Professional Attributes and Health System Factors -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- Chapter 4. The Costs of Noncompliance -- Introduction -- Asthma -- Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease -- Diabetes -- Infectious Disease -- Seizures -- The Elderly -- Antipsychotic Therapy -- Transplantation Pharmacotherapy -- Chapter 5. Definitions and Measurement of Compliance -- Definitions of Compliance -- Noncompliance: Negative Connotations -- Measurement of Compliance -- Methods to Detect Compliance -- Physicians' Estimates of Their Patients' Compliance 85 Can Physicians Be Noncompliant? -- Chapter 6. Models to Evaluate Patient Compliance - Christopher Cook Health Belief Model -- Theory of Reasoned Action -- Theory of Planned Behavior -- Social Cognitive Theory -- Transtheoretical Model -- Other Models -- Conclusions -- Chapter 7. Methods to Impact Patient Compliance -- Types of Impacts on Compliance -- Specific Ways to Improve Compliance -- Getting into the Habit of Complying -- Other Considerations -- Summary -- Chapter 8. Bridging the Gap Between Provider and Patient Variables: Concordance -- The Concordance Movement in Concept and Action -- Concordance -- Chapter 9. Ethics of Compliance -- Capital Punishment and Assisted Suicide -- Noncompliance As a Patient Prerogative -- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPPA) Act and Impacts Upon Compliance -- Information Technology -- Questionable, If Not, Unethical Practices -- Pharmaceutical Company Research and Clinical Trials -- Chapter 10. The Role of Health Professionals in Influencing Patient Compliance - Richard Schulz -- Recognize Limitations and Biases -- Make Sense of the Vast and Contradictory Literature -- Commitment to the Development of Best Practices Regarding Medication Adherence -- Recent Trends in Compliance Research -- Summary -- Chapter 11. Disease State Management in Older Persons with Hyperlipidemia - Louis Roller, Jenny Gowan -- Lipid-lowering Agents -- Adherence to Lipid-lowering Therapy -- Scenario -- Identification of Drug Therapy Problems -- Possible Changes in Therapy and Benefits/Problems -- Possible Changes in Therapy -- Chapter 12. Current and Future Considerations -- Achieving Perfection? -- Complicated Considerations -- Physician and Drug Effects -- Questions (Important Factors) to Consider -- Future Considerations with Emerging Drug Therapies -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Index.