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About Research & Development at NPS About Research & Development at NPS
Research at NPS aims to identify and develop innovative programs to improve medicine use, and ultimately the health of the community.
Our research activities help us:
- identify the gaps in the way medicines are used and who is most at risk in order to develop targeted strategies to close those gaps
- add to the body of knowledge on 'what works' and 'what doesn't work' in promoting and improving Quality Use of Medicines (QUM)
- test innovative models or methods for achieving sustainable improvements in the use of medicines and patient outcomes.
The R&D team will achieve its aims through the development and maintenance of collaborations both within and outside NPS. It will establish, build and maintain partnerships with national and international organisations with similar QUM research interests in order to maximise opportunities to develop research activities, attract funding and conduct research.
The focus of R&D is on:
- building QUM research capacity and skills in Australia and within NPS
- targeted research to understand how consumers and health professionals make decisions around medicines use
- targeted research to improve medicine use by consumers, and prescribing and advice by health professionals.
Research & Development has a number of QUM research projects and partnerships underway to better understand and improve medicines use.
Date published: 2008-02-05 00:00:00
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