THE rate of Home Medicine Review (HMR) uptake among Australian veterans over the last decade has grown sustainably due to regular repetition of quality improvement messages, according to new research published in the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) journal, the Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research.
Researchers based in the Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, evaluated the impact of quality improvement interventions at different time points on the uptake of collaborative HMRs.
National interventions to promote HMRs, comprising patientspecific prescriber feedback and tailored educational materials for patients and clinicians, were conducted in 2004, 2006 and 2011 through the Veterans' Medicines Advice and Therapeutics Education Services (Veterans' MATES) program.
More than 40,000 patients were targeted in each HMR intervention, creating data with statistical significance showing the monthly HMR rate increased from 0.2 per 1000 patients in Nov 2001 to 2.7 per 1000 patients in Dec 2012.
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