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Michael Fischer, MD, Discusses Non-Adherence
Michael Fischer, MD, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, associate physician, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, said that the complexity of the healthcare system is part of the challenge of managing adherence.
Michael Fischer, MD, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, associate physician, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that the complexity of the healthcare system is part of the challenge of managing adherence. Beyond a patient agreeing to and understanding how to take a medication, there must be coordination both with the pharmacy and the insurer.
“There are so many steps in the process and each of those is an area where we lose some patients from medication adherence,” said Dr Fischer. “Lack of understanding, maybe, of the diagnosis, lack of belief in the medications, complexity of the system, cost of the medications—each of those can be a threat to adherence, and figuring out how to address those effectively for each individual patient is really the challenge we all face at this point.”
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The Importance of Examining and Preventing Atrial Fibrillation
August 29th 2023At this year’s American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention, Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, delivered the Honorary Fellow Award Lecture, “The Imperative to Focus on the Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation,” as the recipient of this year’s Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology award.
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Promoting Equity in Public Health: Policy, Investment, and Community Engagement Solutions
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