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Pbpa Creating Pathways To Ensure Patients Are Using Their Inhaled Medications Effectively, Suzan Michelle Collins, Heather Blake, Chandler Blodgett, Sue Vermette, Martine Eon
Pbpa Creating Pathways To Ensure Patients Are Using Their Inhaled Medications Effectively, Suzan Michelle Collins, Heather Blake, Chandler Blodgett, Sue Vermette, Martine Eon
Operations Transformation
Problem: Patients do not consistently know how to prepare, use and/or clean their inhalers effectively.
Impact: When patients do not consistently know how to prepare, use and/or clean their inhalers effectively they are in fact, not receiving the benefit from their prescribed medication.
They experience poor patient outcomes and overall poor patient experience.
- Increased calls to provider offices for unresolved, worsening symptoms and/or complications. (Thrush, hoarseness, cardiac symptoms etc.)
- Increased same day office visits.
- Patient crowding in Urgent Care and/or Emergency Department.
- Hospital Admissions.
- Increase in emotional and financial stress from missing school and/or work.
- Increase in referrals to specialists …