For a long time there has been a bias toward doctors and clinicians regarding patients who need \u201cmedication adherence interventions.\u201d\u00a0 What does that mean to us lay people?\u00a0 It means that if you are directed to take medication for your personal \u00a0health issue(s), by a doctor, and you don\u2019t remember to take those meds on time, as directed, you need someone to remind you.\u00a0 The more you take your meds as prescribed, the less the medical treatment is likely to cost you at the end of the year.<\/p>\n
\nDoctors, researchers who are typically doctors, hospital personnel, who typically work for doctors and so on, make their money by charging patients or their healthcare institutions for services performed. But these days doctors don\u2019t just perform services; they have staff follow up, submit in triplicate (my own euphemism as it\u2019s more likely to be done on a computer network these days) and bill at an inflated rate so that , by the time the claim is denied 2 or 3 times by a healthcare company and then ultimately paid at a much lower rate,\u00a0 their costs and their then minimal profit can be calculated. In the olden days, when I was a child, if I got a bump on my head, my mom would put a cold wash cloth on the swelling and I\u2019d be fine the next day. Today, that same medical issue is treated in an Emergency room, 3 nurses, 2 administrators, a 30 second doctor visit and sometimes a helicopter ride to the E.R.\u00a0 Oh yeah\u2026 and a few billing clerks. And don\u2019t forget the collection calls before you even get the first bill.
\nThe medical profession doesn\u2019t want to be cut out of the process. So when they write about \u201cmedication adherence interventions\u201d those professionals are saying that somebody needs to call the patient from time to time and remind them to take their meds as prescribed because the patient will have a much better outcome for having done so.<\/p>\n
\nThe study<\/a>, that was specifically about making HIV meds<\/a> more effective, was released in early 2013 BMC Medical Infomatics, says that a \u201ccomputer-delivered intervention\u2026\u201d was effective but depended on the individual patients involved. \u00a0That means\u2026 you can use a computerized service to remind you to take your meds but that you have to follow through with the glass of water, taking the meds and then actually swallow said pills in order for the \u201cmedication adherence intervention\u201d to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For a long time there has been a bias toward doctors and clinicians regarding patients who need \u201cmedication adherence interventions.\u201d\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,21,66,24,26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}