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Taking Your Medicine

Author : Jack Fincham
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780789028594
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Taking Your Medicine written by Jack Fincham and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Health Information for International Travel 2005-2006

Author : Paul Arguin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Health Information for International Travel 2005-2006 written by Paul Arguin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Taking Your Medicine

Author : Jack Fincham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781654646547
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Taking Your Medicine written by Jack Fincham and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Circadian Medicine

Author : Christopher S. Colwell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118467787
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Circadian Medicine written by Christopher S. Colwell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Circadian rhythms, the biological oscillations based around our 24-hour clock, have a profound effect on human physiology and healthy cellular function. Circadian Rhythms: Health and Disease is a wide-ranging foundational text that provides students and researchers with valuable information on the molecular and genetic underpinnings of circadian rhythms and looks at the impacts of disruption in our biological clocks in health and disease. Circadian Rhythms opens with chapters that lay the fundamental groundwork on circadian rhythm biology. Section II looks at the impact of circadian rhythms on major organ systems. Section III then turns its focus to the central nervous system. The book then closes with a look at the role of biological rhythms in aging and neurodegeneration. Written in an accessible and informative style, Circadian Rhythms: Health and Disease,will be an invaluable resource and entry point into this fascinating interdisciplinary field that brings together aspects of neuroscience, cell and molecular biology, and physiology.

Pharmaceutical Calculations

Author : Mitchell J. Stoklosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780812110074
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Pharmaceutical Calculations written by Mitchell J. Stoklosa and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309486483
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-06-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use disorder (OUD). More than 2 million people in the United States are estimated to have OUD, which is caused by prolonged use of prescription opioids, heroin, or other illicit opioids. OUD is a life-threatening condition associated with a 20-fold greater risk of early death due to overdose, infectious diseases, trauma, and suicide. Mortality related to OUD continues to escalate as this public health crisis gathers momentum across the country, with opioid overdoses killing more than 47,000 people in 2017 in the United States. Efforts to date have made no real headway in stemming this crisis, in large part because tools that already existâ€"like evidence-based medicationsâ€"are not being deployed to maximum impact. To support the dissemination of accurate patient-focused information about treatments for addiction, and to help provide scientific solutions to the current opioid crisis, this report studies the evidence base on medication assisted treatment (MAT) for OUD. It examines available evidence on the range of parameters and circumstances in which MAT can be effectively delivered and identifies additional research needed.

The Nurse's Role in Medication Safety

Author : Laura Cima
Publisher : Joint Commission Resources
ISBN 13 : 1599406187
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book The Nurse's Role in Medication Safety written by Laura Cima and published by Joint Commission Resources. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written especially for nurses in all disciplines and health care settings, this second edition of The Nurses's Role in Medication Safety focuses on the hands-on role nurses play in the delivery of care and their unique opportunity and responsibility to identify potential medication safety issues. Reflecting the contributions of several dozen nurses who provided new and updated content, this book includes strategies, examples, and advice on how to: * Develop effective medication reconciliation processes * Identify and address causes of medication errors * Encourage the reporting of medication errors in a safe and just culture * Apply human factors solutions to medication management issues and the implementation of programs to reduce medication errors * Use technology (such as smart pumps and computerized provider order entry) to improve medication safety * Recognize the special issues of medication safety in disciplines such as obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics, and oncology and within program settings beyond large urban hospitals, including long term care, behavioral health care, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory care and office-based surgery

Drug Safety

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Drug Safety written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bottle of Lies

Author : Katherine Eban
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063054108
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Bottle of Lies written by Katherine Eban and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019 New York Public Library Best Books of 2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Health and Science Books of 2019 Science Friday Best Books of 2019 New postscript by the author From an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale—The Jungle for pharmaceuticals Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true? Katherine Eban’s Bottle of Lies exposes the deceit behind generic-drug manufacturing—and the attendant risks for global health. Drawing on exclusive accounts from whistleblowers and regulators, as well as thousands of pages of confidential FDA documents, Eban reveals an industry where fraud is rampant, companies routinely falsify data, and executives circumvent almost every principle of safe manufacturing to minimize cost and maximize profit, confident in their ability to fool inspectors. Meanwhile, patients unwittingly consume medicine with unpredictable and dangerous effects. The story of generic drugs is truly global. It connects middle America to China, India, sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil, and represents the ultimate litmus test of globalization: what are the risks of moving drug manufacturing offshore, and are they worth the savings? A decade-long investigation with international sweep, high-stakes brinkmanship and big money at its core, Bottle of Lies reveals how the world’s greatest public-health innovation has become one of its most astonishing swindles.

Preventing Medication Errors

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309101476
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Preventing Medication Errors written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 the Institute of Medicine launched the Quality Chasm Series, a series of reports focused on assessing and improving the nation's quality of health care. Preventing Medication Errors is the newest volume in the series. Responding to the key messages in earlier volumes of the seriesâ€"To Err Is Human (2000), Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), and Patient Safety (2004)â€"this book sets forth an agenda for improving the safety of medication use. It begins by providing an overview of the system for drug development, regulation, distribution, and use. Preventing Medication Errors also examines the peer-reviewed literature on the incidence and the cost of medication errors and the effectiveness of error prevention strategies. Presenting data that will foster the reduction of medication errors, the book provides action agendas detailing the measures needed to improve the safety of medication use in both the short- and long-term. Patients, primary health care providers, health care organizations, purchasers of group health care, legislators, and those affiliated with providing medications and medication- related products and services will benefit from this guide to reducing medication errors.

Improving Medication Adherence

Author : Shawn C. Shea
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 9780781796224
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Improving Medication Adherence written by Shawn C. Shea and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2006 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, case managers, and clinical pharmacists, this pioneering book is the first of its kind devoted to the delicate interface between clinical interviewing and medication adherence. Shawn Christopher Shea, MD takes the reader on a compelling and eminently practical exploration of how our words powerfully impact on whether or not patients are interested in taking medications and staying on them. Dr. Shea shares over forty specific interviewing techniques that are equally useful for medications for all disease states from hypertension, diabetes, and CHF to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The interviewing tips—brilliantly illustrated with their exact phrasings and all of their clinical nuances—were culled by Dr. Shea from the input of the thousands of front-line clinicians who have attended his popular workshops on "improving medication interest" given throughout the United States and Canada at over 200 locations. Improving Medication Adherence: How to Talk with Patients About Their Medications is a standout favorite with medical and nursing students in their "Introduction to Clinical Skills" courses because of its immediate practicality, eloquent yet disarmingly witty writing style, and remarkable brevity. It is equally appreciated by seasoned clinicians with years of experience who, as Dr. Shea writes, are keenly aware that "our science is always at its best, when it is held in the hands of compassion and enhanced by clinical skill."

Patient Safety and Quality

Author : Ronda Hughes
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel

Author : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190628634
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel written by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ESSENTIAL WORK IN TRAVEL MEDICINE -- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED FOR 2018 As unprecedented numbers of travelers cross international borders each day, the need for up-to-date, practical information about the health challenges posed by travel has never been greater. For both international travelers and the health professionals who care for them, the CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel is the definitive guide to staying safe and healthy anywhere in the world. The fully revised and updated 2018 edition codifies the U.S. government's most current health guidelines and information for international travelers, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts. The 2018 Yellow Book also addresses the needs of specific types of travelers, with dedicated sections on: · Precautions for pregnant travelers, immunocompromised travelers, and travelers with disabilities · Special considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees · Practical tips for last-minute or resource-limited travelers · Advice for air crews, humanitarian workers, missionaries, and others who provide care and support overseas Authored by a team of the world's most esteemed travel medicine experts, the Yellow Book is an essential resource for travelers -- and the clinicians overseeing their care -- at home and abroad.

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309459575
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

Light: Medicine of the Future

Author : Jacob Liberman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591437881
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Light: Medicine of the Future written by Jacob Liberman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light: Medicine of the Future challenges the modern myth that the sun is dangerous to our well-being and claims that technological advancements, such as most fluorescent lighting, sunglasses, tanning lotions, and our indoor lifestyles, may be more harmful than helpful. Integrating scientific research, clinical experience, and his own insights, Dr. Jacob Liberman has worked effectively with more than 15,000 individuals, from the learning disabled and physically/emotionally traumatized to business executives and Olympic athletes. The book discusses the use of light in the treatment of various cancers, depression, stress, visual problems, PMS, sexual dysfunction, learning disabilities, and the human immune system.

You and Your Medicines

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book You and Your Medicines written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pill Book Guide to Medication for Your Dog and Cat

Author : Kate A. W. Roby
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553386097
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Pill Book Guide to Medication for Your Dog and Cat written by Kate A. W. Roby and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains profiles of commonly prescribed and over-the-counter medications for cats and dogs, providing information about dosages, side effects, and food and drug interactions; arranged alphabetically by generic name. Includes a first-aid guide, tips on preventive care, and other advice.