Helping Patients Manage Several Eye Medications

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Helping Patients Manage Several Eye Medications

Suppose a patient has a few different eye medications, taken on a chronic basis.

The patient can’t keep track whether they used a drop, and when.

Setting up a spreadsheet can organize and aid the process, to enhance patient compliance with their meds.

Attached is an example of a patient that uses Restasis for both eyes, and 3 other drops just for one eye.

This matrix allows the patient to notate the time they use each medication.  

That lets the patient keep track of when they last used an eye medication, or when they might have forgotten.

The same method could be adjusted to help a patient follow when they take systemic medications.

Attached:  Eye Medication Log, 1 month spreadsheet

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This as a version from Microsoft Excel (spreadsheet).  

If you have a program to open Excel, then you could modify the form, for different medication names.

And then make alternative pages for different months of the year.