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Medicines Review.
The
Home Medicines Review program is a joint initiative between the
Australian Division of General Practice and the Pharmacy Guild. The
program encourages patients with complex medication needs to have a home
visit with a qualified pharmacist to improve medication management.
The general
practitioner is a key component of the process. A GP referral is
essential and the patient should satisfy one of the following risk
factors:
- Currently
taking 5 or more regular medicines
- Taking
more than 12 doses of medication a day
- Significant
changes made to medication regimen in the last 3 months
- Medication
with a narrow therapeutic index or medications requiring therapeutic
monitoring
- Symptoms
suggestive of an adverse drug reaction
- Sub-therapeutic
response to treatment with medicines
- Suspected
non-compliance or inability to manage medication related therapeutic
devices
- Patients
having difficulty managing their own medicines because of literacy
or language difficulties, dexterity problems or impaired sight,
confusion/dementia or other cognitive difficulties
- Attending
a number of different doctors, both general practitioners and
specialists
- Recent
discharge from a facility/hospital ( in the last 4 weeks)
- Other
medication problems
At
the home visit, the pharmacist interviews the patient about their use
and understanding of their medication. Over the counter and
complementary medicines are also included. A report is provided for the
general practitioner. This is reviewed
with the patient at a subsequent visit and any improvements to
medication management are agreed on.
A
PowerPoint presentation on the HMR
process is available from here.
Consumer Brochure available
in Arabic, Chinese,
Croatian, Dutch, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Maltese,
Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese
Home Medicines Review
Templates
The following templates were developed by the Port Macquarie Division of
General Practice, The Central Bayside Division of General Practice and
the Pharmacy Guild of Queensland. Please note opening the
template files may destroy the template fields within them, please
download and save the files. Then follow the instructions in the
attached PowerPoint.
Program
Worker Cleeve Charles
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