Difference between revisions of "Medication Management Factors"
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Medication Management Factors include: | Medication Management Factors include: | ||
* Medication Compliance | * Medication Compliance | ||
| − | * Medication List - maintaining an up-to-date medication list | + | * Medication List - maintaining an up-to-date medication list, optimizing the number and administration of the medicine (pill a day vs. 4 times per day) |
* Understanding Medication Purpose - for each medicine | * Understanding Medication Purpose - for each medicine | ||
* Understanding Potential Side Effects - for each medicine | * Understanding Potential Side Effects - for each medicine | ||
Latest revision as of 09:54, 10 September 2014
Medication Management Factors include:
- Medication Compliance
- Medication List - maintaining an up-to-date medication list, optimizing the number and administration of the medicine (pill a day vs. 4 times per day)
- Understanding Medication Purpose - for each medicine
- Understanding Potential Side Effects - for each medicine
- Ensure Physician & Pharmacist Awareness - ensure each prescribing physicians and pharmacists have the entire Medication List
- Ensure Appropriate Dosage - based on age, weight, condition, etc.
- History of previous Medication side effects
- Ensure labels & proper identification - ensure medicine doesn't get mixed up and take the wrong one at the wrong time
- Medication Interactions - ensure their are no drug to drug interactions
- Understand Other Interactions - food, alcohol consumption, sun exposure, etc.
- Understanding of Instructions - timing, route, etc.
Medication Management factors are sub-elements of the Patient Activation factors which are elements of the psychosocial factors in patient recovery.
