Quality Use of Medicines

The quality use of medicine ensures that medicines are used most effectively to achieve better quality and longer lives. This can include providing access to appropriate medicines and ensuring that these medicines are being used correctly, as well as access to alternate and complementary therapies.

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Updated October 2007

 

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Title:   Media release. Better blood management advancing well in Australia
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing, Senator Jan McLucas, today congratulated the blood sector on its efforts to develop better management practices in its use of blood.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Welcome to our website
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has been funded by the Australian, State and Territory Governments to develop a national strategic framework and associated work program that will guide its efforts in improving safety and quality across the health care system in Australia.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Medication safety
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The objective of this program is to improve the safety of medication usage in Australia. Effective and safe use of medication is one of the greatest areas where potential improvements in the safety and quality of health care can be made.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Commission publications
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Publications produced by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Find Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) on myDr
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   This page allows you to search an extensive medications database from MIMS Australia. CMIs are written in easy-to-understand language, by the pharmaceutical company that produces the medicine. All CMIs must comply with Australian guidelines.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Managing your medicines
Publisher:   NSW Department of Health
Description:   People who take medicines regularly or have a chronic illness should not forget to see a doctor to review their medicines before the prescription runs out.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Information strategy
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The program will provide national leadership and coordination in national improvements to the evidence base for safety and quality, via the development, analysis, use and reporting of information that monitors and equips actions to enhance the safety and quality of health care.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Be sure to take your medicine
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Some medicines can be made from plants or animals and are natural. Some medicines are made by scientists in laboratories.
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Undertreatment of rural people with cardiovascular disease
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   A report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows that drugs and some interventions for cardiovascular disease are underused in rural areas.
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Veterans' MATES
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs
Description:   A new quality use of medicines program, the Veterans Medicines Advice and Therapeutics Education Services (Veterans' MATES) to improve the use of medicines in the veteran community.
Title:   PaCCSC
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   The Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) is a research group looking at improving the quality of care for patients through access, awareness and quality use of palliative care medicines in the community through clinical studies.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Medicines - safety issues
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   About 140,000 Australians are admitted to hospital every year because of problems associated with the use of medicines, including side effects. Some of the causes include taking medicines incorrectly, combining them with alcohol and using medicines prescribed for someone else.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Medimate drug information brochure for consumers
Publisher:   National Prescribing Service
Description:   Medimate helps consumers find, understand and use information about medicines.
Title:   Driving and medicines
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Medicines can affect driving skills. Many medicines for mental health problems, especially sleeping tablets and tranquillisers, can make people feel drowsy. Medicines may also affect vision and co-ordination.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   HRT in the early menopause: scientific evidence and common perceptions
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) remains the first-line and most effective treatment for menopausal symptoms.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Residential Medication Management Review (RMMR)
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   From 1 November 2004 a new item has been available for Medication Management Reviews in residential aged care homes. GPs are now able to claim item 903 for a Residential Medication Management Review (RMMR).
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   National Inpatient Medication Chart
Publisher:   Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care
Description:   A National Inpatient Medication Chart has been implemented across Australian public hospitals and across a significant number of private hospitals to reduce the harm to patients from medication errors.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Guiding principles to achieve continuity in medication management
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Evidence from research into medication safety indicates that significant patient harm and sub-optimal use of medicines frequently result from the discontinuity that occurs when consumers move between different health care settings and health care providers.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   The dilemma of polypharmacy
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Prescribing and managing multiple medications appropriately and effectively is important to optimise function and to avoid adverse health outcomes, especially in older patients.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   National Prescribing Service Consumer home page
Publisher:   National Prescribing Service
Description:   Authoritative information about the quality use of medicines for consumers from the National Prescribing Service.
Date:   Jan 2008
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