Improving Adherence - A Didactic Video Presentation
Potential Strategies to Improve Adherence in Patients with Cardiovascular Risk is one of four modules that comprise Hypertension With Additional Risk Factors, a series of Expert Updates described in the blurb as “an evidence-based lecture series featuring therapeutic insights from leading cardiovascular experts.”
The series is found on The Heart.org and is, according to the legend, “developed with and sponsored by Pfizer Inc.” Registration at The Heart.org is required but is free and relatively painless.
The program’s official description follows:
Commentary
The presentation, essentially a web-based video of talking heads and PowerPoint slides, is well organized, competently delivered, and evidence-based. My sole significant criticism of the content is that it would be easy for the viewer to assume that the studies presented are the definitive and unchallenged clinical trials. A more comprehensive and accurate viewpoint would have resulted by acknowledging that these studies, while well chosen and valid, are not necessarily the final word on compliance, even in patients with this diagnosis, and that other studies have produced conflicting findings (e.g., studies of the effect on adherence of reducing the frequency of medication doses produce inconsistent results).
That concern aside, Potential Strategies to Improve Adherence in Patients with Cardiovascular Risk is useful for any clinician treating hypertensive patients and for those of us interested in compliance in general.
That said, the value of this presentation could be enhanced by a single, inexpensive improvement in how it is offered.
I could find no means of viewing the information other than watching the video in real time and no way of saving the information other than taking a series of screenshots such as the sample slide content graphic shown above.
This is a special problem for the few of us who do not have ready broadband access to the internet. In my case, viewing the presentation was deferred until I could truck into town to hook up to the bookstore’s wireless system. Even practitioners who live in the civilized world and have private T1 lines, however, might find it useful to have all or part of the presentation available on paper.
Given that the presentation, including the exchanges between the presenter and the moderator, was obviously scripted and the PowerPoint slides were -well, PowerPoint slides, Pizer could have kicked in another $100 to produce a PDF version of the presentation for download.
I am unable to come up with a single valid reason this presentation - and many others like it - are available as video-only if the goal of the is exclusively educational.
Accessing The Presentation
- Go to http://www.theheart.org/expertupdates-splash/747419.do (Registration necessary)
- Find “Module 4: Potential Strategies to Improve Adherence in Patients with Cardiovascular Risk”
- Click “View Program” button
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