Duazary (Feb 2016)

Interdisciplinary care for adequate adherence totreatment in patients with lupus nephritis

  • Gladys Gaviria-García,
  • Gustavo Aroca-Martínez,
  • Gloria Lastre-Amell,
  • Carmen Sierra-Llamas

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 30 – 39

Abstract

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The review is based on the contribution that each discipline should provide the patient for a holistic care, which include medical assessment, monitoring and counselling as emotional support, assessment and nutritional monitoring as a key element in core requirements, physical activity that optimize the quality of life, social activities that can enter the individual in active groups, follow-up by nurses to the fulfillment of the ordered drug treatment, car care and orientation education to the family. The novelty of this proposal is to basically carry out care of the interdisciplinary team for treatment adherence. This review concluded that patients with lupus nephritis (NL) treated after assessment and follow-up holistic, such as system monitoring and adherence to the treatment of comprehensive care, provides better quality of life, and minimizes the risks of complication of the patient, avoiding recurrent hospitalizations.

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