Spectra’s medication monitoring system assists PCPs via clear results to ensure patient compliance.
Primary care physicians are finding it more and more critical to perform medication monitoring on each patient. This is due to the fact that many patients are taking different medications and frequently forget to mention them or choose to omit them when providing a history.
Harmful drug to drug interactions are more likely to occur when patients do not report their medications accurately.
PCPs should incorporate safeguards to minimize potential for abuse of controlled substances.
Spectra Clinical Labs’ medication monitoring system helps primary care physicians monitor patients’ use of prescribed scheduled medications as part of their treatment routine and to help identify patients who may need an intervention for potential substance abuse.
There are many types of clinical situations in which medication monitoring can be used including pain management with opioid medications, office-based opioid treatment, primary care psychiatry, and other settings in which healthcare providers need to determine alcohol or other substance use in their patients.
Physicians should not fear disciplinary action for ordering, prescribing, dispensing or administering controlled substances, including opioid analgesics, for a legitimate medical purpose and in the course of professional practice.
The goal is to control the patient’s pain while effectively addressing other aspects of the patient’s functioning, including physical, psychological, social, and work-related factors.
Patients who are in the course of an acute disease, a chronic disease or healing from an injury, are already suffering and experiencing pain. As a physician, your focus is to treat those patients with confidence. Spectra Clinical Labs’ medication monitoring system will assist you in eliminating the “what if” factor by providing simple, clear, accurate and reliable results to ensure patient compliance.