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Author Shea, Shawn C.

Title Improving medication adherence : how to talk with patients about their medications / Shawn Christopher Shea
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : Wolters Kluwer Health, 2006

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Description 158 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Nonadherence: the extent of the problem -- The crux of the problem: the nature of medication nonadherence -- How do patients choose to take a medication? -- Is it really noncompliance? -- Outside the office: the weighing of the pros and cons -- A question of efficacy -- A question of cost -- A question of meaning -- Medication interest redux, caring for the patient
Summary "Shawn Christopher Shea is the Director of the Training Institute for Suicide Assessment and Clinical Interviewing and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Dartmouth Medical School."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Physician and patient.
Patient compliance.
Patient education.
Medication abuse.
LC no. 2006012591
ISBN 0781796229