10 Tips to Improve Patient Compliance

Today’s post is a short read but contains some serious food for thought. Enhancing patient compliance should be high on any clinicians agenda. Do you think there is a difference in priorities and accountability between   care delivery in public or private sector?

• Establish that they want to get better.




• Identify symptom components most amenable to change.




• Identify expected functional gains from improving specific clinical features.




• Identify potentially resistant / non-responsive symptom components and likely functional consequences.




• Establish rehabilitation goals – both functional and clinical.




• Define quantifiable milestones towards mutually agreed goals.




• Identify (potential) bottlenecks to rehabilitation.




• Evaluate barriers to intervention – both modifiable and un-modifiable.




• Ensure your verbal communication reflects the patient’s reality.




• Challenge distorted beliefs and erroneous concepts.




• And……

• Demonstrate focused desire to optimise patient’s outcome.


Enjoy the Clinical Challenge

David

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