Improving Functional Outcomes by Enhancing Patient Adherence

Patient adherence continues to be a frustrating problem for healthcare professionals. Not only is it frustrating fortherapy clinicians, but we also know that non-adherence increases healthcare costs by increasing the amount of care our patients require and by increasing the rate of hospital admissions. Clinicians and organizations are always looking for methods to increase patient engagement and adherence. It is known that when we allow our patients to collaborate in healthcare decisions, we can improve patient engagementand adherence. Research shows that therapy clinicians place value in collaborating in health care decisions with their patients, but there is limited evidence of this being placed intopractice. In fact, a recent study demonstrated only 5% of initial therapy consultations incorporated shared patient- clinician decision-making techniques. This course will discuss strategies that therapy clinicians can use to improve shareddecision-making with patients. By increasing patient engagement and patient healthcare literacy, we can improve our patients' ability to become more proactive in self-management strategies.

Highlights

• Immediately improve your patients' engagement in disease self-management strategies
• Enhance functional outcomes by increasing patient adherence to your treatment regimen
• Hands-on lab for applying concepts to case examples to allow attendees to integrate learning into practice

Target Audience: Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Athletic Trainers