For best ADHD outcomes, contact patient soon after medication initiation and get teacher ratings for a year afterward

Knowing how to best predict patient outcomes in care for attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is essential if community‐based pediatric treatment is to be as successful as possible. However, the evidence base for measuring quality care for ADHD is poor. The most common and effective treatment for decreasing ADHD symptoms is medication, but those decreases can be made even bigger by adding certain practices to the medication.
Source: The Brown University Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update - Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Source Type: research