How To Create and Use A Personal Medication Record

Filed under: AlignMap-EnrichMap, Compliance | By DrHGuy | November 12, 2007 at 12:12 pm

The Personal Medication Record - Part IV: Putting It All Together

A Personal Medication Record¹ (PMR) decreases the risk that you will make a mistake in taking your medication or that healthcare professionals will make a medication error that will result in treatment failure or even harm to you. It can provide essential information in emergencies, especially if you cannot provide that data yourself. Your PMR can also prevent bureaucratic hassles, increase the efficiency of the communication between you and your treatment team, and lessen tensions during doctor visits. That’s why …

Everybody, regardless of age, health, and medications taken
(including those who take no medication), needs an individual
Personal Medication Record that includes at least basic information
about current medications and is always available to that person
and those treating him or her, either routinely or in an emergency

Today’s post, the fourth and final segment of the AlignMap series focusing on the Personal Medication Record,² summarizes the previous entries and can be read as a stand-alone manual on the practical steps to create and use a PMR.

Because there is an extensive amount of information and portions of the reading are quite dense, I have provided a condensed version of the lengthier discussion in the section entitled The No-Nonsense Summary just after the introduction.

Finally, the continuation of this post³ will be a description of some of the practical issues I found in creating my own PMR and will illustrate many of the points raised in this discussion.

To maintain this essay’s accessibility, it occupies its own page within the AlignMap web site,⁴ where it can now be read at

~ How To Create and Use A Personal Medication Record ~

Footnotes

”Personal Medication Record” is the quasi-official name for a document with the important information about the medicines you take. Instead of “How To Create and Use A Personal Medication Record,” the title could have been “How To Create and Use A List Of Your Drugs,” “How To Make A Medication List,” “How To Make A List Of Medicines,” etc. ~back~
The previous posts in this series were
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The continuation should be published in the next 2-3 days ~back~
AlignMap is my professional web site and blog that focus on patient compliance, also known as adherence to treatment ~back~