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Strategies for Obtaining Compliance with Medications Regimens
Author(s) -
Coe Rodney M.,
Prendergast Christine G.,
Psathas George
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1984.tb06138.x
Subject(s) - medicine , compliance (psychology) , pharmacotherapy , patient compliance , intensive care medicine , medline , drug compliance , family medicine , psychiatry , law , psychology , social psychology , political science
Case examples of doctor‐patient interactions are used to examine educational strategies employed by physicians to obtain compliance with medication regimens from elderly patients. The problems addressed by the physicians included the complexities of pharmacotherapy in the elderly (the patients each presented multiple problems involving the use of multiple medications), the limited understandings of the drugs shown by patients and their relatives; and the issue of compliance with instructions. Educational strategies that were effective are described.