Medicines & Treatment Follow-Through

A practical guide to understanding your treatments and keeping one accurate medicine list and schedule.

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Medicines & Treatment Follow-Through is a CarePlanCompass™ Comprehensive Guide that helps you understand your medicines and treatment plan and follow it day to day. It moves through three parts: Understand Your Treatment Plan, which covers knowing each medicine, reading labels, over-the-counter products and supplements, treatments that are not pills, working with your pharmacist, and how your treatment fits into each area of everyday life; Follow Through Day to Day, which covers building a medicine routine, refills and costs, missed doses, side effects, medicine changes after a hospital stay or with several prescribers, safe storage and disposal, and talking with your care team when the plan is hard; and Your Medicine and Treatment Pages, with a medicine list, daily check-off, weekly tracker, refill planner, changes and side-effects log, medicine changes log, questions page, and treatment plan summary. It is educational and organizational support and never replaces your prescriber's or pharmacist's directions.

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