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Jul 20th, 2006

Best Practice Recommended Questions to Assess Patient's Current Medications and Ability to Manage them

Assessing Current Practices:
  1. What medications are you currently taking?
  2. Are you using any other products, herbs, or vitamins (e.g. aspirin, Vitamin C, cinnamon, chromium, green tea, caffeine, alpha lipoic acid, over-the- counter cough medications) to help with your diabetes control?
  3. Do you have a system to help you remember when to take your medications?
  4. When was the last time you forgot to take your medications?
  5. What did you do?
  6. Have you had any problems related to the medications you take for your diabetes?
  7. If yes, what have you done about those problems?

Assessing Medication Use:
  1. Where do you store your medications?
  2. How do you remember to take your medications?
  3. How do you dispose of used syringes?

Assessing Resources, Risk, and Readiness
  1. What is your current plan for obtaining your medications?
  2. On a scale of 1-10 how important do you think it is for you to take your medication(s)?
  3. On a scale of 1-10 how confident are you can remember to take your medications?

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