context medication non-adherence is a commonly observed problem in the self-administration of treatment, regardless of the disease type. text messaging reminders, as electronic reminders, provide an opportunity to improve medication adherence. in this study, we aimed to provide evidence addressing the question of whether text message reminders were effective in improving patients’ adherence to ...

Policy, economics and technology are driving primary care with unprecedented speed. Responding to this rapidly changing environment is essential for maintaining state-of-the-art care delivery. Although Health Information Technology (HIT) offers much promise to primary care, electronic health records (EHRs) have produced only modest improvements in quality. To understand how HIT could better mee...

Background: Stress and anxiety in cancer patients are caused by disease diagnosis, unfamiliar experiences, and therapy-related problems. In addition to the short duration of radiotherapy, receiving and understanding of the information about this treatment could be difficult for patients due to anxiety, fatigue, and mental pressure. Training of cancer patients about radiotherapy via educational ...

BACKGROUND Procedures documented by general practitioners in primary care have not been studied in relation to procedure coding systems. We aimed to describe procedures documented by Swedish general practitioners in electronic patient records and to compare them to the Swedish Classification of Health Interventions (KVÅ) and SNOMED CT. METHODS Procedures in 200 record entries were identified,...

BACKGROUND Smoking is harmful to health. On average, lifelong smokers lose 10 years of life, and about half of all lifelong smokers have their lives shortened by smoking. Stopping smoking reverses or prevents many of these harms. However, cessation services in the NHS achieve variable success rates with smokers who want to quit. Approaches to behaviour change can be supplemented with electronic...

The documentation of interventions by hospital pharmacists has been on-going for over three decades through various available means; with recent national surveys suggesting that the majority of hospital pharmacists continue to document their interventions on a daily basis.1-5 Pharmacist intervention encompasses all activities relating to safe medication utilisation and optimising therapeutic ou...