Promoting Adherence

Promoting patient adherence is an important, but challenging task.

Heart to Heart provides accurate accessible information about CHD risk and prevention strategies, but that is only the starting point for adherence.

For Heart to Heart to have its maximal impact, you will need to:

1. support patients' choices of prevention strategies
2. provide support for adherence.

Specifically, here's what you can do:

1. be open and receptive to patient inquires
2. help patients come to a decision if they haven't
3. help patients make action plans to implement their decision
4. help patients access resources for adherence

By clicking on the links above, you can learn more about the evidence for supporting patient choice and adherence and the specifics about how to do it.