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The Personal Medication Record – Part IV

Although this is the fourth and final AlignMap post focusing on the Personal Medication Record¹ (PMR) as an important method of decreasing unintentional medication noncompliance (i.e., errors in taking medication),² it summarizes the previous entries and can be read as a stand-alone manual on the practical steps to create and use a PMR.

Because there is an extensive amount of information and portions of the reading are quite dense, I have provided a condensed version of the lengthier discussion in the section entitled The No-Nonsense Summary just after the introduction.

Finally, the continuation of this post³ will be a description of some of the practical issues I found in creating my own PMR and will illustrate many of the points raised in this discussion.

To maintain accessibility to this essay, it occupies its own page within the AlignMap web site, where it can now be read at

Footnotes

1. “Personal Medication Record” is the quasi-official name for a document with the important information about the medicines you take. Instead of “How To Create and Use A Personal Medication Record,” the title could have been “How To Create and Use A List Of Your Drugs,” “How To Make A Medication List,” “How To Make A List Of Medicines,” etc.↩
2. The previous posts in this series were
   1. Everyone Needs A Personal Medication Record
   2. Choosing The Right Personal Medication Record
   3. Compiling The Personal Medication Record

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3. The continuation should be published in the next 2-3 days↩