title: Patient counseling by pharmacist - a focus on chronic illness.
abstract: The management of chronic illness needs lifestyle modifications and drug therapy for a long period. Patient understanding regarding the illness plays a very important role in management of chronic illness. Effective patient counseling makes the patient understand his/her illness, necessary lifestyle modifications and pharmacotherapy in a better way and thus enhance patient compliance. The pharmacist has immense responsibility in counseling the patients with chronic illness. The counseling pharmacist should possess adequate knowledge and should be an effective communicator, making use of the verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology and Department of Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy Manipal Teaching Hospital/Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal.
authors.forename: Subish
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Palaian
authors.forename: Mukhyaprana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prabhu
authors.forename: P Ravi
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Shankar
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010595:Pharmacists; D024382:Professional Role