Medicine use and safety

The Department has active research programs in the area of medicine use and safety. The projects, conducted within the Centre for Medication Safety, range across both community and hospital settings, and employ a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Examples of the project areas are:

• Implementation of electronic prescribing and decision support systems to improve safe and effective use of medicines
• Examination of factors that affect medication adherence in patients
• Impact of adverse effects of anticancer drugs on quality of life
• Factors impacting on the safe and effective use of medicines in paediatric patients
• Implementation and evaluation of new professional roles for pharmacists in disease state management
• Factors affecting the safe and effective use of generic medicines
• Collaborative approaches to improve medication safety across hospitals
• Safer and more effective use of medicines through understanding clinical pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationships

We are pleased and proud that the Centre for Medication Safety is supported by Pharmaceutical Defence Limited.