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Betsy Sleath
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 190
Citations - 5639
Betsy Sleath is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Glaucoma & Medical prescription. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 181 publications receiving 5045 citations. Previous affiliations of Betsy Sleath include University of New Mexico & University of North Carolina at Asheville.
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The Brief Medication Questionnaire: a tool for screening patient adherence and barriers to adherence.
TL;DR: The BMQ appears more sensitive than existing tools and may be useful in identifying and diagnosing adherence problems, with results varied by type of non-adherence, with the Regimen and Belief Screens having 80-100% sensitivity for "repeat" non- adherence.
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The relationship between glaucoma medication adherence, eye drop technique, and visual field defect severity.
Betsy Sleath,Susan J. Blalock,David W. Covert,Jennifer Stone,Asheley Cockrell Skinner,Kelly W. Muir,Alan L. Robin +6 more
TL;DR: Eye care providers need to assess patient adherence and to work with those patients with poor adherence to find ways to improve their ability and self-efficacy in using their glaucoma medications.
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Patient-reported behavior and problems in using glaucoma medications
TL;DR: Patient adherence to a glaucoma medication regimen could be improved among patients receiving adjunctive therapy and ophthalmologists and their clinical colleagues should make sure to discuss the problems and concerns that patients may have in taking their glAUcoma medications in an effort to improve adherence.
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Contrasting Measures of Adherence with Simple Drug Use, Medication Switching, and Therapeutic Duplication
Bradley C. Martin,Elizabeth Wiley-Exley,Shirley Richards,Marisa Elena Domino,Timothy S. Carey,Betsy Sleath +5 more
TL;DR: The Proportion of Days Covered (PDC) adherence metric with 2 variants of the Medication Possession Ratio (MPR, truncated MPR) is compared to provide a more conservative estimate of adherence than the MPR across all types of users.
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Medication decision-making and management: A client-centered model
Betty Chewning,Betsy Sleath +1 more
TL;DR: The position that medication management outcomes can be improved by adopting more client-centered approaches is explored, and implications for health care provider roles and public policy in pharmaceutical care are discussed.