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List of reports produced or supported by NPSList of reports produced or supported by NPS
Listed below are reports produced or supported by NPS.
- Complementary Medicines
- Evaluation of NPS activities and programs – Annual summary reports
- Consumers' knowledge, attitudes, awareness and behaviour
- Health professionals' knowledge, attitudes, awareness and behaviour
- Medication Safety
Complementary Medicines
Click here for more information about Complementary Medicines research at NPS.
| Title | Date |
|---|---|
| Review of complementary medicines electronic resource This review of complementary medicines information resources aimed to identify high quality resources for use by Australian health professionals and consumers. |
March 2009 |
| Information Use and Needs of Complementary Medicines Users Research results - the attitudes, information seeking behaviour and preferences for information about complementary medicines of Australian users. |
December 2008 |
| Complementary Medicines Information Use and Needs of Health Professionals: General Practitioners and Pharmacists Research results - Australian general practitioner and pharmacist knowledge and attitudes regarding complementary medicines, how they currently seek and assess the quality of information about complementary medicines,and their preferences for future information. |
December 2008 |
| Complementary medicines: attitudes and information needs of consumers and healthcare professionals (Literature review) This review synthesises the available research on information seeking and the information needs of consumers and health professionals in Australia and overseas around complementary medicines. |
July 2007 |
Evaluation of NPS activities and programs
These reports present the evaluation results of our activities and programs
| Title | Date |
|---|---|
| NPS Annual Evaluation Report No. 14 2010–11 An overview of our progress and key achievements for the 2010–11 financial year, as well as our ongoing contribution towards improving health and economic outcomes for all Australians. The information contained in this report is used to guide decisions about our future work |
2012-02-02 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No.13: Progress, achievements and future directions, March 2011 Progress, achievements and future directions of NPS from 2009 to 2010, with an emphasis on monitoring processes and implementation and measuring impacts and outcomes. |
2011-03-23 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 12: Progress, achievements and future directions, February 2010 Progress, achievements and future directions of NPS from 2008 to 2009, with an emphasis on monitoring processes and implementation and measuring impacts and outcomes. |
2010-03-10 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 11: Progress, achievements and future directions, February 2009 Progress, achievements and future directions of NPS from 2007 to 2008, with an emphasis on monitoring processes and implementation and measuring impacts and outcomes. |
2009-03-12 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 10: Progress, achievements and future directions, December 2007 Progress, achievements and future directions of NPS from 2006 to 2007, with an emphasis on monitoring processes and implementation and measuring impacts and outcomes. |
2007-12-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 9: Progress, achievements and future directions Progress, achievements and future directions of NPS from 2005 to 2006 with an emphasis on monitoring processes and implementation and measuring impacts and outcomes. |
2006-12-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 8: Progress, achievements and future directions, December 2005 Progress, achievements and future directions of NPS from 2004 to 2005 with an emphasis on monitoring processes and implementation and measuring impacts and outcomes. |
2005-12-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 7: Progress, achievements and future directions, December 2004 Evaluation of NPS programs including activities with health professionals and consumers leading to changes in attitudes, skills and knowledge. |
2004-12-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 6: Progress, achievements and future directions, December 2003 Evaluation of NPS programs including activities with health professionals and consumers and the economic effect on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. |
2003-12-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 5: Progress of a national program for QUM, October 2002 Evaluation of NPS including a national program for QUM (Quality Use of Medicines), intervention programs, process evaluation, impact evaluation, outcome evaluation, and questions that remain. |
2002-10-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 4: NPS programs for QUM in the community, February 2002 Evaluation of NPS programs including the common colds campaign. Also discusses local services from divisional facilitators and priorities for future services to consumers. |
2002-02-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 3: July 2001 Evaluation of NPS including stakeholder perceptions of success of interventions in changing prescriber behaviour, awareness of NPS, activity reports, and evaluation of TAIS. |
2001-07-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 2: November 2000 Evaluation of NPS including current priorities, antibiotics for URTIs as a target therapeutic area, evaluation of divisional case studies, and methodological challenges in evaluation. |
2000-11-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 1: June 2000 Evaluation of NPS including an overview of the evaluation plan, participation in NPS activities, economic impact evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of interventions, and health outcomes. |
2000-06-01 00:00:00 |
Consumers' knowledge, attitudes, awareness and behaviour
These reports present results from NPS surveys of consumers about their knowledge, attitudes, awareness and behaviour around medicine use and NPS Programs.
Health professionals' knowledge, attitudes, awareness and behaviour
These reports present results from NPS surveys of health professions about their knowledge, attitudes, awareness and behaviour around medicine use and NPS Programs.
- National GP Survey 2008
- National GP Survey 2006
- National GP Survey 2004
- National Pharmacist Survey 2008
- National Pharmacist Survey 2006
- Optimising use of PPIs
Medication Safety
| Title |
Date |
|---|---|
| Medication Safety in the Community: A Review of the Literature. The review explores the outcomes and prevalence of adverse drug events and medication errors, factors contributing to or increasing the risk of such events. It reviews interventions to reduce medication related adverse events that result in mortality, hospital admissions, emergency department attendances and/or morbidity in the community. |
June 2009 |
| Medication Safety in Australia: Current Status at November 2007. A Discussion paper. This report summarises the current state of medication safety activities in Australia, identifies any linkages between work on medication safety and Quality Use of Medicines work and identifies gaps in the coordination of that work. |
November 2007 |
e-Health
| Title |
Date |
|---|---|
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e-Health can enable sharing and access to information to help consumers and health professionals make better decisions. NPS has developed an e-health strategy which outlines how we will use e-health to improve the use of medicines and medical tests and increase the impact of our interventions. |
June 2011 |
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Quality, safety and usefulness of general practice prescribing software study. Report. The aims of this study were to identify the key features of general practice electronic prescribing systems that support patient safety and quality of care and are useful for clinicians and patients; to establish consensus on the most important features; to assess the implementation of these features in commonly used general practice prescribing software systems; and to make recommendations about the most important features. |
April 2011 |
Date published: 2008-02-12 00:00:00
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