Medication Management Factors
From PatientRecovery
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.
