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The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Israel
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Background:
Adherence to treatment by adolescents and adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) is often poor.
Objectives:
To assess the impact of a focused clinical intervention on adherence in individual patients, including help in problem-solving key barriers to adherence. To implement a patient-centered problem-solving intervention using CF My Way to...
Background
People with CF require many medications daily. Adolescents and young adults often adhere poorly and find the burden of treatment a challenge. The “CF My Way” program was developed by Alexandra Quittner to increase individual responsibility in treatment regimens.
Objectives
To apply the “CF My Way” program over 12 months and assess its i...
Treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with inhaled hypertonic saline (HS) solutions is safe, beneficial and reduces exacerbation rates. We studied contamination of solutions used by Israeli CF patients for prolonged periods.
The study addressed whether daily opening of previously unopened solutions caused contamination, survival of 6 CF-associ...
