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	<description>Beyond Compliance, Adherence, &#38; Concordance - Supporting The Patient's Implementation Of Optimal Treatment</description>
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		<title>Ending The Damage Caused By The Treatment Adherence Paradigm</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/29/ending-the-damage-caused-by-the-treatment-adherence-paradigm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My post, It&#8217;s Time To Stop The Damage Caused By Today&#8217;s Patient Compliance Paradigm, went online at the eyeforpharma.com site today.
While fundamentally a summary of the preceding posts on this blog, 1  It&#8217;s Time To Stop The Damage Caused By Today&#8217;s Patient Compliance Paradigm can claim an original introduction, which, I think, is worth sharing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Today&#8217;s Treatment Adherence Paradigm Must Be Destroyed – Part 2</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/25/why-todays-treatment-adherence-paradigm-must-be-destroyed-%e2%80%93-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[patient compliance]]></category>
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This is the second post in this series on the inadequacy of the current treatment adherence paradigm. The link to the first post in this series follows: Why Today&#8217;s Treatment Adherence Paradigm Must Be Destroyed – Part 1.
The photo atop this post, “Instant Of Impact,” was taken by Jeff Lowe
Patient Compliance – The Concept That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Today&#039;s Treatment Adherence Paradigm Must Be Destroyed &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/23/why-todays-treatment-adherence-paradigm-must-be-destroyed-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/23/why-todays-treatment-adherence-paradigm-must-be-destroyed-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transforming Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patient compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[treatment adherence]]></category>

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Because The Survival Of The Current Patient Compliance Concept Endangers Patients
But more about that later.
Understanding both the catastrophic risk and the seemingly inexplicable persistence of the patient compliance model1 is facilitated by first considering a parallel case of another incorrect medical hypothesis.
There Will Be Blood: Bloodletting As A Model For Adherence
While mistaken beliefs in many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons I Should Be Named Surgeon General</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/19/5-reasons-i-should-be-named-surgeon-general/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/19/5-reasons-i-should-be-named-surgeon-general/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transforming Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patient compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surgeon general]]></category>

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Why President Obama  Should Appoint Me Surgeon General

It would make my mother feel better if I had a salaried job with the government.
I would have the opportunity to give back something to medicine and society, improve public health, embrace humanity, end world hunger, save the whales, be all that I can be, reach out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMA Non-Compliant Patients Resolution &quot;Not Adopted&quot; On Technicality</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/17/ama-non-compliant-patients-resolution-not-adopted-on-technicality/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/17/ama-non-compliant-patients-resolution-not-adopted-on-technicality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Patient's Role]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transforming Compliance]]></category>

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It&#8217;s Magic! &#8220;Resolution 710 &#8211; Identifying Abusive, Hostile Or Non-Compliant Patients&#8221; Changed To Procedural Code Issue
OK &#8211; Resolution 710, proposed  at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association,1 was always technically a procedural coding issue. Heck, it&#8217;s not even an unusual sort of procedural coding issue.
The Non-Compliant Patient Coding Resolution Isn&#8217;t Quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AlignMap In Cites Update</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/17/alignmap-in-cites-update/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/17/alignmap-in-cites-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AlignMap In Cites]]></category>

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AlignMap In Cites, the tumblelog companion to this blog, offers succinctly annotated links to web sites and online material pertinent to treatment adherence.
Typically, these are brief news stories, videos of compliance enhancement devices, and summaries of treatment studies that require little explication.  In addition, AlignMap In Cites posts frequently include information sources from outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Different AMA View Of Non-Compliant Patients</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/16/a-different-ama-view-of-non-compliant-patients/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/16/a-different-ama-view-of-non-compliant-patients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Patient's Role]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transforming Compliance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the preceding AlignMap post, AMA Resolution On Non-Compliant Patients – What&#8217;s Up With That?, I was critical of a proposed Resolution coming before the American Medical Association House Of Delegates bearing the subject line, &#8220;Identifying Abusive, Hostile or Non-Compliant Patients&#8221; and beginning
Whereas, Many patients are becoming more abusive and hostile toward physicians for many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMA Resolution On Non-Compliant Patients &#8211; What&#039;s Up With That?</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/15/ama-resolution-on-non-compliant-patients-whats-up-with-that/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/15/ama-resolution-on-non-compliant-patients-whats-up-with-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policies &#038; Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transforming Compliance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In one of those instances of serendipity about which one hears so much, the AMA and I have each been independently  engaged in changing the current perspective and policies on management of non-compliant patients.
Our proposals, it turns out, are not identical.
The result of my efforts today can be found in the preceding post, Beyond Patient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Patient Compliance: Patients Who Lie</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/15/beyond-patient-compliance-patients-who-lie/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/15/beyond-patient-compliance-patients-who-lie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transforming Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adherence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor-patient relationship]]></category>
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Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
- Hippocrates1

Launching A Guerrilla Attack On Patient Compliance &#8211; The Battle Of Patients With Pants On Fire
The publication of  Lots Of Patients Fib, Sometimes By Accident, a  nicely done article by Karen Ravn in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Patient Compliance To Side-effectology</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/12/from-patient-compliance-to-side-effectology/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/12/from-patient-compliance-to-side-effectology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patient compliance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the same principles currently prevalent in the field of patient compliance were applied to the study and management of side-effects, &#8230;

Intercosmic Journal Of Treatment Side-Effectology
Searching for the cause  of treatment side-effects &#38; its cure
Articles
381st study shows same  side-effect rate  of  1 to 98%  &#8211; Researchers perplexed, obtain grant for further studies  tabulating subjects in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Compliance &#8211; So Wrong For So Long</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/09/patient-compliance-so-wrong-for-so-long/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2009/06/09/patient-compliance-so-wrong-for-so-long/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patient compliance]]></category>

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I&#8217;ve published a second post, Patient Compliance &#8211; So Wrong For So Long, at the eyeforpharma.com site.
For ongoing AlignMap readers, this will be a new perspective on an old theme &#8211; the failure of the concept of patient compliance to provide reliable or valid information about a patient&#8217;s response to treatment recommendations.
Specifically, I compare the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tragedy Of Patient Compliance</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2009/05/17/the-tragedy-of-patient-compliance/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2009/05/17/the-tragedy-of-patient-compliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 22:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been invited to post on the eyeforpharma.com site. In hopes of extending my audience, I&#8217;m giving it a shot.  
This is a trial and error process. We&#8217;ll see how it works out.
The initial post can be viewed at The Tragedy Of Patient Compliance.1
Readers who viewed this page also viewed:AlignMap OverviewAlignMap ProfileTop 10 Patient [...]]]></description>
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