What is the focus of disease management?

• A. Focus on medications used to treat the patient's disease
• B. It is limited to those medications specifically used to treat the patient's disease rather than the entire medication regimen
• C. It covers the patient’s entire medication regimen
• D. It focuses on dispensing processes

Answer: (B)

Disease management focuses on optimizing the therapies that directly treat the patient’s disease. It involves selecting appropriate drugs, determining dosing, ensuring adherence, and monitoring effectiveness and safety for those disease-specific medications. It does not aim to manage every medicine a patient takes (such as vitamins or meds for other conditions) or the dispensing process. For example, in hypertension, the emphasis is on antihypertensives and how well they control blood pressure, rather than the entire medication list or how medications are dispensed.