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What is Blood Levels?
When taking certain medications, such as lithium, concentrations in the blood must be measured regularly.
Reported Purpose & Perceived Effectiveness
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| Purpose | # of patients | # of patients with evaluations | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell |
| General health | 15 | 4 |
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| Increase effect of another treatment | 5 | 2 |
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| Hypothyroidism | 4 | 0 | |||||
| Diabetes Type 2 | 4 | 1 |
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| Diagnostic assessment | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Low potassium (hypokalemia) | 1 | 0 | |||||
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Reported Side Effects
Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Blood Levels
| Bruising | 2 | |
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| small veins | 2 | |
| take blood on back of hands | 2 | |
| Flu like symptoms | 1 | |
| rolling veins | 1 |
Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
Adherence
Taking treatment as prescribed
Adherence of Blood Levels
Always |
9 | 90% |
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Usually |
0 | 0% |
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Sometimes |
1 | 10% |
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Never |
0 | 0% |
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Burden
Difficulty being on treatment
Burden of Blood Levels
Very |
0 | 0% |
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Somewhat |
4 | 40% |
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A little |
2 | 20% |
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Not at all |
4 | 40% |
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Cost
Paid out of pocket
Cost of Blood Levels
$200+ |
1 | 13% |
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$100-199 |
1 | 13% |
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$50-99 |
0 | 0% |
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$25-49 |
1 | 13% |
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< $25 |
5 | 63% |
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