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Designing an Informatics Infrastructure for a National Aged Care Medication Roundtable.
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Studies in health technology and informatics [Stud Health Technol Inform] 2024 Jan 25; Vol. 310, pp. 404-408. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- In the residential aged care sector medication management has been identified as a major area of concern contributing to poor outcomes and quality of life for residents. Monitoring medication management in residential aged care in Australia has been highly reliant on small, internal audits. The introduction of electronic medication administration systems provides new opportunities to establish improved methods for ongoing, timely and efficient monitoring of a range of medication indicators, made more meaningful by linking medication data with resident characteristics and outcomes. Benchmarking contemporary medication indicators provides a further opportunity for improvement and is most effective when indicator data are adjusted to take account of confounding factors, such as residents' characteristics and health conditions. Roundtables provide a structure for sharing and discussing indicator data in a trusted and supportive environment and encourage the identification of strategies which may be effective in improving medication management. This paper describes a new project to establish, implement and evaluate a National Aged Care Medication Roundtable.
- Subjects :
- Humans
Aged
Patient Care
Australia
Benchmarking
Quality of Life
Informatics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1879-8365
- Volume :
- 310
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Studies in health technology and informatics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 38269834
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI230996