What is it about?
Adherence assessment is an essential pharmacist service, which is part of their responsibility to achieve the definite outcomes aligned with the objectives of pharmaceutical care practices. Patient-centered adherence can be achieved when the practitioner considers a patient’s individual needs, his/her rights and responsibilities, and the practitioner’s obligation to make decisions for each individual patient in a consistent, systematic and comprehensive manner.
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Why is it important?
The problem of non-adherence in this study encourages pharmacists to actively participate in the patient care process. The patient’s understanding of drug therapy indications and regimens is very important in encouraging a patient’s expectations of achieving effective treatment. Information about the safety of treatment will reduce the patient’s concern in using the medication as intended. Adherence to medication represents a willingness and an action, which will arise from the patient if all these things are met.
Perspectives
The practice of pharmaceutical care not only provides us with the opportunity to improve adherence, but also imposes a responsibility for us to approach it from a different perspective than what has been considered. This approach is very different. In fact, the traditional meaning of adherence does not really “fit’ the paradigm of the practice. Therefore, we will refer to this new adherence assessment tool as “patient-centered adherence.”
Lisa Aditama
Universitas Surabaya
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This page is a summary of: Adherence behavior assessment of oral antidiabetic medication use: a study of patient decisions in long-term disease management in primary health care centers in Surabaya, Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, November 2019, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/jbcpp-2019-0257.
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