Surveys for Medication Tracking

Psychiatric medication is a very delicate field. While medicine may be one of the best ways to treat various psychiatric conditions, the human brain is also a very fragile system, and the use of medication can cause problems for those that need a working medication: Side Effects – Some patients may have side effects that cause them extreme discomfort. Ineffectiveness – Some patients may be taking medicine that isn’t working.

Unwanted Differences – Some patients may stop taking medication because they do not like what the medicine causes. There are even those that have paradoxical effects, where the medicine causes a worsening of the exact same problem that the drugs are trying to treat. As a psychiatrist, it’s in your best interests to have some way of tracking patient medication use, so that you know that they’re benefitting from it as prescribed.

That’s where online survey software can be immensely beneficial.

Once a patient leaves the office it is up to them to continue to take the medication as prescribed and see results. Normally you wouldn’t know what effects the medication had until they come in for a follow up appointment, but by then they may have suffered a great deal or lost valuable recovery time.

But with online survey software, you can make sure that they’re receiving the benefits of the medication, using surveys such as: Follow Up Survey – You can send them an email after a few days and make sure the medication is working as it is supposed to, and find out if they’re suffering from any side effects. Medication Monitoring – For patients that need to take their medication, you can send them regular surveys that both remind them to take it and ask them if they have, so you can track whether or not their medication is being used as prescribed. Mental Health Monitoring – Similarly, you can make sure that they are seeing improvements in their mental health, and use online survey software to track how they’re feeling on a daily or weekly basis.

With the SurveyMethods system, creating these surveys is easy, and they allow you to gain far more information on your patient than you could the traditional way of simply prescribing medication and waiting. Online survey software has very real benefits that can help you with your psychiatric practice, and are worth considering as a standard part of your treatment strategy. To find out more about the features that SurveyMethods has in place that can help you with your psychiatric practice, sign up for a free account today.