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.

Follow the links below to find information about the quality use of medicines.

Updated October 2007

 

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Title:   Welcome to the website for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Publisher:   Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Description:   The Commission 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:   Jun 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:   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:   Jun 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:   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:   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:   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:   Asthma management can be improved
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways in the lungs. Safe and effective preventer medications for asthma are available for adults and children. But medication will only work if taken as prescribed.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Turning knowledge into action
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Studies of healthcare provision show that many patients do not get care that is consistent with the best available evidence.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Media release. Funding to help patients manage their medication
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Older patients and people taking multiple medications are set to benefit from better packaging of their medicines by pharmacists.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Get to know your medicines
Publisher:   National Prescribing Service
Description:   About 140,000 people are hospitalised each year as a result of medicine problems including adverse reactions to their medicines. It pays to find out how to manage your medicines to keep as healthy as possible.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   National Prescribing Service Limited: Accurate, balanced, evidence-based information about medicines
Publisher:   National Prescribing Service
Description:   National Prescribing Service (NPS) is a member-based organisation providing accurate, balanced, evidence-based information and services to health professionals and the community on Quality Use of Medicines (QUM).
Date:   Jun 2007
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:   May 2007
Title:   Medicines for cardiovascular health: are they used appropriately?
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   Covers trends in prescription and supply of these medicines, patterns of supply by geographic area and patient socioeconomic level, whether patients take medicines as intended, adverse events associated with these medicines, initiatives to improve the quality of use of medicines, and government expenditure.
Date:   May 2007
Title:   General medication management
Publisher:   Diabetes Australia - Victoria
Description:   Many people with diabetes, their family members and carers want reliable information about how they can wisely and safely use all the medicines that their doctor has prescribed.
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   Managing medicines
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   For those with a serious illness, managing medicines is an important task.
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   'As required' medication regimens for seriously mentally ill people in hospital
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Prescribing drugs to be given 'as required' by clinical staff is a widespread interim method of treating acute psychotic symptoms or behavioural disturbance thought to be secondary to psychotic illness. We searched for randomised trials that compared th...
Date:   Mar 2007
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