Could community pharmacy medicine supply to aged care facilities benefit from quality improvement? Stakeholder perspectives and the resulting initiative

• In: Posters
• At: Amsterdam (the Netherlands) (2012)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: CPS3-P-12
• By: GILMARTIN, Julia (Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia)
• Co-author(s): Hussainy, S. (Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
  Marriott, J. (Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
  
• Abstract:

  I. Background: Our previous research found that 11.6% of pill-organisers (blister-packs and sachets) at 49 Australian aged care facilities were inaccurately or inappropriately prepared. These community pharmacy supplied pill-organisers re-packaged medicines according to dose schedules. Most common incidents included: packing medicines with

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