National Cholesterol Education Program

Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) Guidelines Slide Set

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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