Enhancing Medication Adherence: The Public Health Dilemma [Paperback]

Enhancing Medication Adherence: The Public Health Dilemma is a comprehensive guide to medication adherence for the healthcare professional. Clinicians and pharmacists alike can benefit from key opinion leader and author Hayden Bosworths text as he explains the details and causes behind medication nonadherence as well as methods on how healthcare providers can determine if a patient is nonadherent. Additionally, Bosworth discusses various studies, which assess adherence, adherence-related technology, best practices for clinicians and pharmacists, and future directions and recommendations in the field.Here is a comprehensive guide to medication adherence for the healthcare professional. It explains the details and causes behind medication nonadherence as well as methods on how healthcare providers can determine if a patient is nonadherent.Defining medication nonadherence.- Causes of medication nonadherence.- Methods for determining medication adherence.- Evaluating adherence-enhancing interventions.- The role of healthcare providers in medication adherence.- Medication intervention recommendations.- Future directions and recommendations.Hayden B Bosworth, PhD, a health services researcher, focuses onpatient and organization level factors to improve treatment adherence.He is the associate director of the Center for Health Services Research inPrimary Care and Career Award scientist at the Durham Veterans AffairsMedical Center (VAMC). He is a research professor in the Department ofMedicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, research professor inthe Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, research professorin the School of Nursing at Duke University Medical Center, and adjunctprofessor in the Department of Health Policy and Administration in theSchool of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.He is also a senior fellow at the Center for Aging and Human Developmentand a senior fellow at the Center for Health Policy at Duke UniversilS_