Abstract

IMPROVING QUALITY CARE FOR PATIENTS THROUGH PATIENT COUNSELLING: AN OVERVIEW

Priyanka S.*, Ashwin Sankar T. and Shindya B.

Abstract

Drugs take part an indispensable role in health care. Desired results of treatment hang on both the efficacy of medication and patient adherence to the course of therapy. Adhesion to medications is crucial to attain the foremost feasible pharmacotherapy upshot. Patient counselling call attention to the process of coming up with key information, advice and assistance. Patient counselling is done to evaluate the patient understanding of the therapy, including actual use and adverse effects of the medication; enhance patient adherence; and drive the patient to participate effectively in health care management. This article explained the objectives of patient counselling, described the skills for effective patient counselling and presented steps and strategies to improve the counselling activities.

Keywords: Patient counselling, key information, health care management.