96316 The Principles of Quality Use of Medicines

Using medicines effectively:

Choosing suitable and appropriate medicine/ intervention:

Using medicines safely:

Judicious selection of interventions:

How will the best possible outcome be reached? How will you know if the treatment has been effective? What individual patient factors may influence the effectiveness of the treatment? Patients and consumers need to be engaged to partner in the intervention and supported to managed side effects medication management.

Safe use and harm minimisation need to be focussed on and strategies should be identified. Identify and monitor use/ misuse/ overuse / underuse.

Is a medication required? Consider all pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions,

Consider needs to be given to the individual, co-morbidities, other treatments, risks and benefits, dosage, duration, monitoring requirements. What are the financial cost to the individual and the community?