%0 Journal Article
%T The Patient Profile: Improving Treatment Adherence
%A Caitlin Barba
%A R. Scott Hammond
%A Stacey Hammond
%J Archive of "Annals of Family Medicine".
%D 2018
%R 10.1370/afm.2239
%X Primary care clinicians have limited time to get to know patients to individualize care delivery and thereby activate patients. Between 46% and 56% of patients misunderstand dosing instructions or medication warnings.1 This partially accounts for the 1.5 million adverse drug events resulting in 117,000 hospitalizations each year.2 To answer the Institute of Medicine¡¯s call ¡°to become a more health literate organization,¡±3 and in an attempt to improve treatment adherence by deepening relationships and engagement, our health literacy initiative evolved into a whole-person assessment: The Patient Profile
%K health literacy
%K patient participation
%K patient education
%K patient adherence
%K patient compliance
%K social determinants of health
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5951260/