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National Cholesterol Education Program
Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) Guidelines Slide Set
SLIDE 1: ATP III Guidelines
Adherence
SLIDE 2: Interventions to Improve Adherence
Focus on the patient
- Simplify medication regimens
- Provide explicit patient instruction and use good counseling techniques to teach the patient how to follow the prescribed treatment
- Encourage the use of prompts to help patients remember treatment regimens
- Use systems to reinforce adherence and maintain contact with the patient
SLIDE 3: Interventions to Improve Adherence (continued)
Focus on the patient (continued)
- Encourage the support of family and friends
- Reinforce and reward adherence
- Increase visits for patients unable to achieve treatment goal
- Increase the convenience and access to care
- Involve patients in their care through self-monitoring
SLIDE 4: Interventions to Improve Adherence (continued)
Focus on the Physician and Medical Office
- Teach physicians to implement lipid treatment guidelines
- Use reminders to prompt physicians to attend to lipid management
- Identify a patient advocate in the office to help deliver or prompt care
- Use patients to prompt preventive care
- Develop a standardized treatment plan to structure care
- Use feedback from past performance to foster change in future care
- Remind patients of appointments and follow up missed appointments
SLIDE 5: Interventions to Improve Adherence (continued)
Focus on the Health Delivery System
- Provide lipid management through a lipid clinic
- Utilize case management by nurses
- Deploy telemedicine
- Utilize the collaborative care of pharmacists
- Execute critical care pathways in hospitals
Archived page, reproduced from a 2012 copy. It is reference material, not current guidance.