Challenges commonly happen among healthcare and chronic disease patients

Failure of communication among healthcare practitioners
  • For various ailments, patients with multiple chronic diseases visited several specialists' clinics as well as the primary care clinic.
  • When it came to prescription medications, there was a lack of communication between specialists and PCPs, as modifications in medication regimens by specialists were frequently not reported to PCPs.
  • PCPs, for example, were not informed of any medication modifications made to patients while they were in the hospital.
  • This increased the danger of drug interactions and duplications, thereby jeopardising patient safety.
Patients' living and care arrangements are evolving.
  • Most elderly patients live with their offspring, as is customary in Asian society.
  • Elderly patients with multiple children, on the other hand, are occasionally 'rotated' between the homes of different children.
  • These elderly individuals may subsequently be escorted by several caregivers to various doctors for follow-up visits at various healthcare facilities.
  • There was a lack of continuity of care, making prescribing difficult for this group of patients.
Coping with the opinions, needs, and medication-taking habits of patients.

  • When it came to initiating, maintaining, or modifying their drugs, patients had their own ideas and preferences.
  • While some patients asked for more prescriptions, others believed that modern medications were harmful to their health and hence lowered or stopped using them.
  • Patients did not listen to their PCPs when it came to changing drugs given by experts because they believed the specialists knew better.

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