1. Sustaining practice change in health care: the impact of a national quality improvement program on the uptake of collaborative medicines reviews
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Emmae N. Ramsay, Andrew L. Gilbert, Janet K. Sluggett, John D. Barratt, Lisa M. Kalisch Ellett, Elizabeth E. Roughead, Mhairi Kerr, Nicole L. Pratt, Vanessa T. LeBlanc, Kalisch Ellett, Lisa M, Pratt, Nicole L, Sluggett, Janet K, Ramsay, Emmae N, Kerr, Mhairi, LeBlanc, Vanessa T, Barratt, John D, Gilbert, Andrew L, and Roughead, Elizabeth E
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Quality management ,business.industry ,medicines review ,Australia ,Pharmacy ,prescriber feedback ,030226 pharmacology & pharmacy ,humanities ,quality improvement ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Practice change ,Nursing ,Health care ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,030212 general & internal medicine ,business - Abstract
National interventions to promote HMRs, comprising patient‐specific prescriber feedback and tailored educational materials for patients and clinicians, were conducted in 2004, 2006 and 2011 through the Veterans’ Medicines Advice and Therapeutics Education Services (Veterans’ MATES) program. Primary care patients taking multiple medicines were targeted in each intervention, while primary care patients taking multiple medicines who did not receive the intervention served as comparisons. Monthly HMR rates among targeted patients and a comparison group in the 9 months post‐intervention were determined using health claims data from the Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs and compared using log binomial regression models. Overall trends in the rate of HMRs between November 2001 and December 2016 were also determined. Refereed/Peer-reviewed
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- 2018