Taking Your Medicine
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Taking Your Medicine
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Author : Jack Fincham
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2005-09-30
Taking Your Medicine written by Jack Fincham and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-30 with Medical categories.
Practical tips for keeping track of your medications Forgetting to take scheduled doses of prescribed medications can cost you time, money, and future health care problems. But remembering what to take—and when to take it—can be difficult when you have so many important things to deal with on an everyday basis. Taking Your Medicine: A Guide to Medication Regimens and Compliance for Patients and Caregivers is a practical guide to the process of taking medications, presenting helpful tips and simple ideas for patients, family members, and health care providers. Author Jack E. Fincham, named by Drug Topics magazine as one of the 50 most influential pharmacists in the United States, offers effective strategies that help patients help themselves by taking an active role in treatment decisions, following treatment plans, and getting involved when problems arise. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report, patients suffering from chronic illnesses who live in developed countries achieve a medication compliance rate of only about 50 percent. In developing countries, the rate is even lower. Whether it’s due of a lack of understanding, a lack of motivation, or a lack of concern, the failure to take medication as directed can have serious consequences. Taking Your Medicine: A Guide to Medication Regimens and Compliance for Patients and Caregivers makes taking medication easier, examining organizational, educational, and behavioral impacts on compliance, apprehensions over adverse drug effects and side effects, choosing a pharmacist, specific methods for improving compliance, reasons for noncompliance, considerations in taking medication, and patients’ rights. Taking Your Medicine addresses: prescription and OTC drugs medical conditions affected or caused by noncompliance generic substitutes for brand name medications being an informed consumer-10 simple questions for health care providers dealing with Internet pharmacies Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) regulations online security of medical information and records interactions between drugs and other drugs, vitamins, herbal supplements, food and nutritional products, tobacco, and/or alcohol and much more! Taking Your Medicine includes charts and tables that provide essential information on treatable chronic diseases and acute conditions, common abbreviations and their meanings, common alcohol warnings, potentially dangerous drugs for elderly patients, pharmaceutical companies that offer medical assistance programs for seniors, and Web sites with specific information for senior citizens, parents and children. It’s an invaluable resource for consumers who take prescribed medication and for caregivers—friends, family members, or health professionals—who provide them with help.
Taking Your Medicine
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Author : Jack Fincham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-03
Taking Your Medicine written by Jack Fincham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-03 with categories.
This book will provide you with some simple ideas that can easily be implemented to help you or those you care for. You may be reading this book to help yourself be compliant, or you may wish to help a loved one (spouse, child, parent, or grandparent) better comply with prescription instructions. This book will give you tips that you can use right away to become more compliant in taking medications. If you or someone you take care of or care for has trouble remembering to take scheduled closes of prescribed drugs, you or they are not alone. Taking drugs on a regularly scheduled basis is a difficult task. Many things occur in our lives that divert our attention to other pressing matters. In fact, 50 percent of us are noncompliant with prescription instructions at some point. It is so easy to be critical of ourselves or others that have trouble with taking medications as scheduled, but be gentle. Many times, the dose starting and frequency of administration of drugs can be confusing.This book is written to help you better understand the process of taking medications and to help you or someone you care for learn how to be compliant with drug regimens. It is sometimes difficult to be compliant with medications because you have so many other important things to deal with on a day-to-clay basis. However, medication compliance can save you time, money, and future health care problems. Health providers are critical of patients who do not comply with regimens. The words used to describe those of us who are struggling to take medications as prescribed include: -noncompliant-noncooperative-deviant-forgetful-non-adherent We all need to worry less about labeling patients and more about helping understand and solve the problem of medication noncompliance. I vividly recall asking a woman in her nineties about her drug taking and compliance behavior. I wanted to find out how and when she became noncompliant with her blood- pressure medication. I asked: "When did you take your medications today, and did you for get to take some of the closes?" Her reply was swift and insightful: "Listen, how can you expect me to know about something I forgot to do in the first place?" What a great answer this was-one that embarrassed me more than a little. The lesson learned was simple: rather than blaming them for not being compliant, learn to help patients learn how to help themselves become as compliant as they can be. Anything that we do to improve compliance will rarely be 100 per cent successful. However, most things that we do to become more compliant can improve our health. That is the goal of this book-how to help you and yours become healthier by making the medication taking easier and thus making it easier to be compliant with drug regimens.Within the chapters, key points summarize important factors to consider when you take or give medications. These points can pro vide immediate help to you and your loved ones as you try to comply with medication schedules. An appendix at the end of the book provides specific Web site and further drug-related information for seniors, drug-related information for parents and children, and a listing of numerous Web sites containing information about drugs for all age groups. The tips included in this book hopefully will provide you with some definite actions to take right away to improve your health. You are the most important person in the health care system, and you are the person this book is written for. Let us start today to be healthier by helping ourselves as much as we can with the drugs that we take.
Taking Medicine
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Author : Liz Gogerly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Taking Medicine written by Liz Gogerly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In Taking Medicine, Jimmy tries to make his teddy bear better by giving him medicine. He soon learns that medicines are not magical and that if they are not taken properly, they can be dangerous!
1 001 Prescription Drugs
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Author : FC and A Publishing Staff
language : en
Publisher: FC&A Publishing
Release Date : 2000-08
1 001 Prescription Drugs written by FC and A Publishing Staff and has been published by FC&A Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08 with Medical categories.
In the insider's guide to prescription drugs, you'll get complete coverage of the most commonly prescribed medicines. Clear explanations describe what each drug is supposed to do for you, side effects you may experience, special warnings, information for pregnant and nursing mothers, and helpful hints on how to take your medicine for maximum effectiveness. Plus, you'll find out how to save money on prescriptions, protect yourself against drug tampering and pharmacist errors, and how to store your medicines properly. Finally, many of the conditions for which doctors normally prescribe drugs are actually treatable with natural alternatives. Find out what these are and if they'll work for you. Includes over 1,001 natural, drug-free solutions for common problems and an alphabetical drug index to help you easily locate whatever medicines you take.
Taking Your Medicine
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Author : Mark Ragg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Taking Your Medicine written by Mark Ragg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
Stop Buying Medicines
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Author : Praveen Wadalkar
language : en
Publisher: Notion Press
Release Date : 2016-09-13
Stop Buying Medicines written by Praveen Wadalkar and has been published by Notion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Medical categories.
Oh! I forgot to take my medicines! How often have you said this or heard people say it? We forget many things in our daily lives, but there is a difference when we forget to take our prescribed medicines. If you missed yesterday’s medicines, you can’t take them today – the damage has already happened in your body. According to the World Health Organization, “approximately 50% of patients do not take their medications as prescribed.” This can lead to significant increase in hospitalization, treatment failure and even death. With more than fifteen years of experience in the healthcare domain and after engaging more than 1,50,000+ patients through his organization, Praveen Wadalkar offers insights into the world’s biggest healthcare challenge – medication non-adherence. Whether you are a patient or a patient’s family member or friend, this book is sure to help save lives. It not only highlights the key reasons for medication non-adherence but also offers several strategies to enable people to take their medicines on time and as prescribed by their doctors.
Now You Won T Forget To Take Your Medicine
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Author : Pesce Publishing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-09
Now You Won T Forget To Take Your Medicine written by Pesce Publishing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-09 with categories.
This Medication Planner will help you to remember to take your daily medications on time without fail. Regardless of whether you take your medications due to some chronic diseases like diabetes or you have just cold or flu, it is important not to forget to take medicine as prescribed by the doctor, taking into account your meals and times of day. It will make your medication much more effective and eliminate risks of double dosing or skipped doses. Use it together with your pill box for the best result. This Medication Log Book will also help you to maintain water and to describe every day how you feel. You can write information that may be helpful for your doctor, for example information about headaches, fever etc. You can use it as a notebook or, for example, cut out pages and hang them on your refrigerator. For large families we have foreseen the possibility to write the name of the person who should take the medicine, so that several people can use it at the same time. This Medication Tracker can be also a very helpful gift for your loved ones.
Prescription Medicines And You
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Prescription Medicines And You written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Consumer protection categories.
Taking The Medicine
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Author : Druin Burch
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-01-15
Taking The Medicine written by Druin Burch and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-15 with Family & Relationships categories.
Doctors and patients alike trust the medical profession and its therapeutic powers; yet this trust has often been misplaced. Whether prescribing opium or thalidomide, aspirin or antidepressants, doctors have persistently failed to test their favourite ideas - often with catastrophic results. From revolutionary America to Nazi Germany and modern big-pharmaceuticals, this is the unexpected story of just how bad medicine has been, and of its remarkably recent effort to improve. It is the history of well-meaning doctors misled by intuition, of the startling human cost of their mistakes and of the exceptional individuals who have helped make things better. Alarming and optimistic, Taking the Medicine is essential reading for anyone interested in how and why to trust the pills they swallow.
You And Your Medicines
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
You And Your Medicines written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Geriatric pharmacology categories.