NPS offers warfarin tool
May 31, 2013
NPS MedicineWise will this week
distribute new ‘Warfarin Dose
Tracker’ cards to all community
and hospital pharmacies across the
country, as part of its ‘Achieving
Good Anticoagulant Practice’
national program.
The Warfarin Dose Tracker is a
passport-sized card which helps
people taking the medication keep
track of their INR results, record
any changes to their daily warfarin
does and be reminded when their
next INR test is due.
NPS clinical adviser Philippa Binns
said the initiative will support
pharmacists in their professional
conversations with people taking
warfarin or their carers.
“Our research with people taking
warfarin found that while most
of them received comprehensive
information about the medicine
when they were first prescribed,
most of them felt overwhelmed at
that time and couldn’t take it all in,”
Binns said.
The feedback also indicated
that patients preferred to receive
information and resources about
their medicines from a trusted
health professional, “so we
hope that pharmacists will take
advantage of the opportunity to
order the free NPS MedicineWise
resources and have them on hand
to share with patients,” she added.
There’s also a new Living with
warfarin fact sheet, with additional
free copies of the dose tracker able
to be ordered by calling 02 8217
8700 or by CLICKING HERE.
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