Posting Suspended
In the preceding post, I mentioned the illness of a loved one; unfortunately, this illness has become severe. Consequently, routine posting on AlignMap.com and AlignMap In Cites, as well as my personal blogs, will continue to be suspended. I will post any changes in this plan, including the resumption of blogging, here.
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Semi-Hiatus at AlignMap
Given the dearth of recent posts to AlignMap, this is, I suppose, a clarification rather than a notification.
A convergence of family and business responsibilities, the illness of a close friend, and some relatively minor but time-consuming healthcare issues of my own make routine updating of this blog as well as AlignMap In Cites impossible.
The most likely scenario for the immediate future has me sporadically and unpredictably posting items when the opportunity arises.
My hope is to return to my original 3-5 posts per week schedule when the current tempests are quelled.
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New Posts on AlignMap In Cites
- Physician Counseling Promotes Healthier Lifestyle in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
- Understanding Medication Compliance and Persistence from an Economics Perspective
- Written exercise instructions improve patient compliance
- Selling generic drugs via vending machine not only spares patients a trip to the pharmacy, but improves medication compliance
- Adherence to Initial Adjuvant Anastrozole Therapy Among Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer
- Claimed Benefits of Aerosolized Antibiotics Not Proven
- Depression needs to be discussed during rheumatoid arthritis doctor visits
- Medication adherence and cognition
- HIV/AIDS Advocacy Groups, Scientists React to Swiss Claim About Antiretrovirals, HIV Transmission
- Video: Why many blood pressure patients stop taking their prescription medications
- Handing off teens’ care to the teens
- It costs an average of $6533 to recruit a patient for a trial, and three times that amount to recruit a new patient if one is lost due to noncompliance
- New Developments and Research in Treatment Adherence in Schizophrenia
- Impediments to Prescription Compliance
- Is hole in DOTS policy playing a role in the evolution of an XDR-TB strain?
Footnotes
- AlignMap In Cites is a new tumblelog I’m auditioning as an augmentation to the AlignMap web site and weblog. (See AlignMap In Cites - More Content, Less Delay [back]
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Favorite AlignMap In Cites Posts
AlignMap In Cites is a new tumblelog I’m auditioning as an augmentation to the AlignMap web site and weblog.1
Since the last AlignMap post referencing AlignMap In Cites, several items have been posted there. Some of those I consider most interesting are listed below:2
- The Psychotic Dilemma
- Workplace Wellness Programs: Pro and Con
- Problems With Compliance Among Australian Aboriginal People For Whom Western Medications Have Little Meaning
- International Osteoporosis Foundation report outlining fiscal and clinical impact of noncompliance in osteoporosis patients signals the launch of the IOF Staying Power: Closing the Adherence Gap in Osteoporosis campaign
- 33% of patients admit that they did not fill all their NEW prescriptions in the past year
- Having to pay as little as $10 of a mammogram’s cost leads many older women to skip the breast cancer exam, a large study of Medicare users finds
- Medicine is not set up to worry about what happens when people leave the doctor’s office
- Researchers Propose Consumers Buy Yearly ‘Drug Licenses’ as New Way to Pay for Prescriptions; Compliance Expected To Improve
- Nobody knows why people lie to their doctors and nurses but we do have an infallible technique for detecting patients who are telling porkies; their lips move
- The National Audit Office wants to print the cost of drugs on packets to discourage us feckless patients from wasting precious NHS resources by failing to take the medicines we have been prescribed.
- As far as I an remember, that was the only compliant patient I’ve ever had here.
Search Me
I’ve added a search function to AlignMap In Cites (see area in red box above). Like the tumblelog itself, the search mechanism is on trial. This search is fast and covers all the posts (unlike Google, which covers only those posts indexed by the Googlebot). The limitation of this mechanism is that, as far as I can determine, it can search only for a continuous string; e.g., entering “patient compliance” will find all instances of “patient compliance” as a single term but will not find posts with both “patient” and “compliance” if those words are separated - such as “The patient was in the compliance study.”
Footnotes
- See AlignMap In Cites - More Content, Less Delay [back]
- These items are listed by time of entry with the most recent first. The links below go directly to the single item described. All entries can be accessed in a single listing at AlignMap In Cites. [back]
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Most Recent Posts at AlignMap In Cites
AlignMap In Cites is a new tumblelog I’m auditioning as an augmentation to the AlignMap web site and weblog.1 The items below are listed by time of entry with the most recent first. The links below go directly to the single item described. All entries can be accessed in a single listing at AlignMap In Cites.
- Explaining Patients’ Beliefs About the Necessity and Harmfulness of Antidepressants by Aikens et al. (Abstract)
- The Placebo Effect (at Science Based Medicine)
- Study: Calls help couch potatoes walk
- Wellness Programs May Face Legal Tests - WSJ.com
- January/February 2008 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
- The economic consequences of noncompliance in cardiovascular disease and related conditions: a literature review
- Americans Use Excessive Force, or None at All, Battling Diseases
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An Introduction To AlignMap In Cites
AlignMap In Cites is a new tumblelog I’m auditioning as an augmentation to the AlignMap web site and weblog.
For readers who are in the adult, non-geek population, the Wikipedia definition of tumblelog is provided below:
It may also be helpful to think of AlignMap In Cites as the quicker, less obsessive, happy go lucky younger sibling of the curmudgeonly, prolix, and sometimes abstruse AlignMap Weblog.
Both the design of tumblelogs described above and Tumblr, the software that powers AlignMap In Cites, make posting a link to a site, such as an online abstract or text, the home page of a compliance-enhancing product, or another blog covering an aspect of adherence, a quick, easy process. Posting a link to web site X can be accomplished without leaving web site X.
The ease and speed of posting makes this process ideal for pointing to items that require little or no explanation beyond, “Hey, look at this.” It’s not unlike mentioning to a colleague over lunch that he might be interested in a study on noncompliance of 50-60 year old males with hip fracture rehabilitation programs in the new issue of the New England Journal.
Although I just began posting to AlignMap In Cites this morning, I’ve been playing with Good Clean Wholesome Fun, the tumblelog sidekick for my personal Heck of a Guy blog, for four or five days and feel as though I’m getting the hang of the thing.
While I’m convinced this format is worth trying, I am not yet convinced of its utility. As I said, it’s a tryout, and you get free tickets to the dress rehearsal.
The first two AlignMap In Cites entries are online at
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