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Poor adherence is ubiquitous in medicine. Doctors prescribe medications, but patients don't always use them. While it is easy to blame non-adherent patients for treatment failures, there is much doctors can do to get our patients to use their medications better. We may even be able to achieve far better treatment outcomes through innovative ways of encouraging patients to use the treatments we have today than we could by developing new medications. In this book, Daniel Lewis and adherence researcher Steven R. Feldman examine the problem of adherence and provide numerous concrete, practical tools for improving patients' adherence behavior. This is not a theoretical tome; it is an easy to read, entertaining look at the many steps at which health care professionals can encourage better use of medications. Practical Ways to Improve Patient Adherence is an excellent resource book for physicians and allied health professionals whose patients have less than ideal treatment adherence. The book offers novel, potent ways to get patients to use their medications and improve the outcomes of treatment, tools a health care provider will use day in and day out. A medical education is not complete without a thorough understanding of the hurdles of poor adherence and what doctors can and should do about it.

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Daniel J. Lewis is at Baylor College of Medicine and a Research Assistant in the Department of Dermatology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Dan grew up in Richboro, Pennsylvania and earned a B.A. in Biology, magna cum laude, at the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored over 50 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, JAMA Dermatology, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, and British Journal of Dermatology. His chief professional interests are cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and psoriasis. Dan also works as a professional sports journalist and has written over 80 articles for Yahoo! Sports, Bleacher Report, and SB Nation (www.DanielLewisSports.com). He also founded and served as Editor-in-Chief of The Penn Sport Report. Dan is also Founder and Co-President of Fitness for Life, a community service organization based in Philadelphia that seeks to combat the growing obesity epidemic in the United States by empowering children to live healthy lives. Steven R. Feldman, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Dermatology, Pathology, and Social Sciences & Health Policy and Director of the Center for Dermatology Research at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dr. Feldman has been ranked by ExpertScape as one of the top-five worldwide experts in psoriasis, acne, dermatitis and adherence to treatment. He has served as a member of the medical board of the National Psoriasis Foundation, chaired that board's subcommittee on education, and served as Director of the Foundation's Chief Residents' Meeting on psoriasis treatment. He has also chaired the American Academy of Dermatology's Psoriasis Education Initiative Workgroup. He is the founder of www.DrScore.com and Chief Science Officer of Causa Research. He serves as the editor of or an editorial board member for five dermatology journals and is the author of Compartments: How the Brightest, Best Trained, and Most Caring People Can Make Judgments That Are Completely and Utterly Wrong. He is also the curator of www.PromisedLandMuseum.org, The Jewish Museum of the Palestinian Experience.

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