Projects

The Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre members have completed and are currently involved in many projects involving the quality use of medicines including:

• Medication Management in the community.  An implementation trial

• Model Practices Project

• Implementation mechanism to raise standards of practice resupply of pharmacy & pharmacist only medicines in Community Pharmacy

• The Quality Use of Medicines Mapping Project, a previous initiative of this Centre can provide you with further information on past and present quality use of medicines projects throughout Australia.  Details available throught the QUM Mapping website include an abstract, contact details and granting information.

• Evaluation and promotion of the quality use of medicines mapping project

• Factors influencing implementation of quality use of medicines in aged care facilities

• Hospital Discharge Medication Service:  A community-based approach

• Exploring alteration of medication dose forms in residential aged-care facilities

• Improving the quality of mediciation use for people with mental illness:  Identification of risk factors and evaluation of strategies to promote the safe and effective use of psychotropic drugs

• Kids take care with Medicines Programme

• Pharmaceutical Representative and Medical Practitioner Encounter: Implications for quality use of medicines

• Investigation of the anti-infective activity of extracts from plants used as medicines by the Australian Aboriginal peoples

• Smoking cessation programme using nicotine patches: hospital to community setting

• Suitability of performance indicators for monitoring the implementation and effect of Australia's Policy on the Quality Use of Medicines

• Trial of nicotine patches with counselling versus counselling alone as smoking cessation strategies in nicotine dependent pregnant women

• Pharmacy Project on the Eyre Peninsula - South Australia

• Pharmacy Rural Health Project Report

• Building a sustainable model for quality use of medicines activity in a rural community

• Quality Of Use of Prescribed Medication in the Remote North and Far West of South Australia

• Using Medication Profiles in the North Project

• Achieving Quality Use of Medicines in community and residential care settings: Implementation and Evaluation of Quality Use of Medicines

• Development and Evaluation of an International Drug Information Network

• A study into the effect of pharmacy redesign on patient-pharmacist interations

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