Reducing pill burden and helping with medication awareness to improve adherence
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Medication nonadherence can be intentional when polypharmacy and high pill burden become overwhelming for patients. At the Bruyere Geriatric Day Hospital (GDH), patients referred for medication review take an average of 15 medications.1 The resulting complex regimens can lead to confusion about indications for medications, lack of certainty in their effectiveness and frustration. Patients increasingly believe that the multiple medications may not be needed and often elect to stop taking some or all of them. This case illustrates an approach to reducing the pill burden of polypharmacy that includes eliminating medications that are not working or are potentially harmful, reducing dosing frequency and using fixed combination products. Ultimately, identifying barriers to adherence and enhancing the patient’s understanding of the indication and proper use of medications, while reducing pill burden, assisted in improving adherence and disease control during a 12-week admission. A description of the GDH processes and in particular, communication about medication-related care, can be found in Appendix 1 (www.cpjournal.ca).
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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