Non-Adherence Issues
Adherence Toolkit
Staff Tools
- Adherence Solutions [Revised June, 2009]
- Alternative Solutions [August, 2009]
- Compliance - Booklet
- Compliance Article - Beliefs on Adequacy
- Compliance Article - Physical and Psychological Issues (Related to Adherence)
- Dialysis By Slot: NW 14 Recommended Guidelines
- In Control: Getting Enough Dialysis (vol1 n3;September 2004): A Medical Education Institute/Life Options Publication (Staff Section)
- Mental Health Issues and Adherence
- Patient Assessment, Effective Health Communication, and Cultural Competency (Tip Sheets):
- Tip Sheets: Introduction
- Tip Sheet #1: Patient Assessment
- Tip Sheet #2: Effective Health Communication-Health Literacy
- Tip Sheet #3: Cultural Competency & Limited English Proficiency
- Posters: [Ledger size 11X17]
- Treatment Adherence Assessment Form
Patients Handouts
- Adherence Brochure for New Patients
- Adherence Brochure for Established Patients
- Compliance Article - Let's Talk About It
- Do You Feel As Good As You Should?
- In Control: Getting All the Dialysis You Need (vol1 n3; September 2004): A Medical Education Institute/Life Options Publication (Patient Section)
- Missing Dialysis: Is It Worth the Risk?
Section Three: Articles
- Best Ways to Deal with Noncompliant Patients by Mark Crance, BA (Medscape Business of Medicine June 5, 2009)
- Dealing with the Noncompliant Dialysis Patient: 10 Steps to Achieving Compliance by Ramiro Valdez, PhD (Nephrology News and Issues April 2003)
- Developing a generic, individualized adherence programme for chronic medication users by Hanne Herborg, Lotte S. Haugbolle, Lene Sorensen, Charlotte Rossing, Pernille Dam (Pharmacy Practice vol.6 no.3 July-Sept. 2008)
- Facilitating Treatment Adherence with Lifestyle Changes in Diabetes by Marlon Russell Koenigsberg, PH.D., Donald Bartlett, PH.D., and J. Steven Cramer, M.D. (American Family Physician Jan. 15, 2004)
- Furthering patient adherence: A position paper of the international expert forum on patient adherence based on an internet forum discussion by Sandra van Dulmen, Emmy Sluijs1, Liset van Dijk1, Denise de Ridder2, Rob Heerdink3, Jozien Bensing1,2 and the International Expert Forum on Patient Adherence (BMC Health Services Research correspondence Feb. 27, 2008- permission to reprint)
- How understanding motivation can improve dialysis practices by Dori Schatell, MS and Paula Stec Alt, MBA (Nephrology News & Issues Sept. 2008)
- Nonadherence in hemodialysis: Associations with mortality, hospitalization, and practice patterns in the DOPPS by Rajiv Saran, Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham, Hugh C. Rayner, David A. Goodkin, Marcia L. Keen, Paul C. Van Dijk, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Luis Piera, Akira Saito, Shunichi Fukuhara, Eric W. Young, Philip J. Held, and Friedrich K. Port (Kidney International Vol.64 2003-permission to reprint)
- Patient adherence to medical treatment: a review of reviews by Sandra van Dulmen, Emmy Sluijs1, Liset van Dijk1, Denise de Ridder, Rob Heerdink3 and Jozien Bensing1 (BMC Health Services Research article April 17, 2007)
- Patient Non-adherence- Pervasiveness, Drivers, and Interventions by Elanor Herriman, MD, MBA (IC Sciences Vol.2 No.4 Aug. 2007-permission to reprint)
- Psychosocial predictors of non-compliance in haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients by Nancy G. Kutner, Rebecca Zhand, William M. McClellan, and Steven A. Cole (Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2002)
- Strategies to Enhance Adherence, Reduce Costs, and Improve Patient Quality of Life by Ian R. McNicholl, PharmD, BCPS (Supplement to Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy JMCP June 2008 Vol. 14, No. 5, S-a www.amcp.org)
- Techniques to Improve Compliance in Hemo- and Peritoneal Dialysis Patients by Horace Baston, PhD and Merny Schwartz, PhD (Nephrology News & Issues July 1999)