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Medicines review is also known as medication review, home medicines review, HMR, residential medication management review or RMMR.
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| Medicines for type 2 diabetes - Independent medicine & health information | People with type 2 diabetes may need medicines as well as dietary changes & physical activity to control their blood glucose levels. Treating diabetes with medicines helps relieve symptoms & reduces the risk of developing complications. |
Web page | Consumers,Others,Research & Evaluation community | 2011-11-14 00:00:00 |
| What is a therapeutic group premium? | Explains what a therapeutic group premium is. |
FAQ | Consumers | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 |
| Are any non-prescription medicines on the PBS? | Yes. Some medicines that are available without a prescription are also subsidised if you have a prescription and meet the criteria for subsidy (e.g. nicotine patches). Ask your doctor to find out whether you can get any of the over-the counter medicines you currently take on prescription. |
FAQ | Consumers | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 |
| Are there different PBS Safety Net thresholds for singles versus families? | No. The Safety Net thresholds apply to family units and are the same regardless of whether the unit consists of one person, a couple, or a family with dependent children. |
FAQ | Consumers | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 |
| When does the 20-day rule apply to the PBS Safety Net? | If you buy certain medicines within 20 days of having bought them previously, a rule called the 'Safety Net 20-day rule' applies. In such cases, you will have to pay your usual PBS-subsidised amount for the medicine if you are already using a Safety Net Card. If you haven’t reached the threshold for the Safey Net, the cost of the medicine will not count towards your Safety Net tally. |
FAQ | Consumers | 2012-03-15 00:00:00 |
| How can I keep my medicines costs down? — FAQs | Use the PBS Safety Net, consider your medicine brand choices, including generic drugs, and have your medications reviewed. See more FAQs about buying medicines. |
FAQ | Consumers | 2011-03-15 00:00:00 |
| How can I keep my medicines costs down? Independent medicine and health information | Find out how to save money on medicines by using the PBS Safety Net. Consider your medicine brand choices, including generic drugs, and have your medications reviewed. |
Web page | Consumers | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 |
| Medicines for type 1 diabetes - Independent medicine & health information | People with type 1 diabetes need medicines as well as dietary changes & physical activity to control their blood glucose levels. Medicines are needed to relieve symptoms & reduces the risk of developing complications. |
Web page | Consumers,Others,Research & Evaluation community | 2011-12-06 00:00:00 |
| Indicators of Quality Prescribing: 7 | Indicators of Quality Prescribing: Indicator 7 Identifying Medicine Misadventure. This indicator asks practices if they have a policy on identifying patients at high risk of medicine misadventure. |
Professional tool - Indicators of quality prescribing | Health Professionals | 2006-02-01 00:00:00 |
| Medicines and older people | Examines prescribing and medication management issues in older people in the community and aged care facilities; strategies for consumers and health professionals. |
Professional publication - NPS News | Health Professionals | 2004-06-01 00:00:00 |
| Polypharmacy | Looks at ceasing medications and adverse effects of drugs. What is polypharmacy? Steps for managing polypharmacy in elderly patients. Case study. |
Professional publication - NPS News | Health Professionals | 2000-12-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS News 8: Medication reviews in general practice | Medication reviews in general practice, examining their importance, the different professions involved and patient problems such as concordance and side effects. |
Professional publication - NPS News | Health Professionals | 2000-01-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Prescribing Practice Review 26: Drug use in the elderly | Information on the principles of good prescribing in the elderly, including advice on managing sleep or behavioural disturbances using both non-drug and drug therapy interventions. |
Professional publication - Prescribing Practice Review | Health Professionals | 2004-07-09 00:00:00 |
| NPS Prescribing Practice Review 26: Drug use in the elderly | Information on the principles of good prescribing in the elderly, including advice on managing sleep or behavioural disturbances using both non-drug and drug therapy interventions. |
Professional publication - Prescribing Practice Review | Health Professionals | 2004-07-09 00:00:00 |
| NPS Prescribing Practice Review 8: Medication review for your patients with heart failure | Information on how to take a medication history and determine if a patient is on all appropriate medications to optimise management of their heart failure. |
Professional publication - Prescribing Practice Review | Health Professionals | 2000-05-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Prescribing Practice Review 7: What is a medication review? | Information on what a medication review is, who should have one, the process involved in undertaking such reviews, and the Medicare subsidies available. |
Professional publication - Prescribing Practice Review | Health Professionals | 2000-02-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Prescribing Practice Review 4: Reviewing long term use of benzodiazepines and managing the new patient with insomnia | Information on reviewing the need to continue, reduce or cease an individuals long term use of benzodiazepines. A plan for managing insomnia is also provided. |
Professional publication - Prescribing Practice Review | Health Professionals | 1999-07-01 00:00:00 |
| Articles on medication review from NPS RADAR | Get independent, accurate, evidence-based info on medication review. Written for doctors, pharmacists & other health professionals. |
Topic overview | Health Professionals | 2009-10-28 00:00:00 |
| Medication Safety in the Community: A Review of the Literature | A literature review of medication safety in the community |
Corporate publication - Research report | Research & Evaluation community,Health Professionals,Consumers | 2009-06-09 00:00:00 |
| Video: Get help with a Home Medicines Review | Ask your doctor for a medicines review every 6 to 12 months. Some of your medicines may no longer be needed. Your doctor can also organise for you to have a Home Medicines Review, where a pharmacist will visit you in your home to discuss your medicines. Watch this video to find out more about Home Medicines Review. |
Multimedia - Video | Consumers,Health Professionals | 2009-11-12 00:00:00 |
| Home Medicines Review | Information about Home Medicines Reviews (HMR): what they are, who should have them, how much they cost, and where to find more information. |
Web page | Consumers | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 |
| Medication Safety in the Community: A Review of the Literature | Literature review of medication safety in the community looks at the prevalence, outcomes and risk factors for adverse drug events, medication errors, drug interactions, side effects and contraindications, as well as patient safety interventions to prevent their occurrence |
Corporate publication - Research report | Research & Evaluation community | 2009-06-09 00:00:00 |
| Using medicines wisely and safely | Medicines play a major role in preventing and treating illnesses, but only if we use them wisely and safely. Find out whats involved. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2009-05-01 00:00:00 |
| Yolngu stories make sense of medicines | Learn about the culturally-appropriate 'medicines story' written by a team of health professionals to tell 'where medicines come from', translated into a local Arnhem Land language and spread throughout the Aboriginal community. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2005-12-01 00:00:00 |
| Home Medicines Reviews explained | Learn about Home Medicines Reviews, which can help reduce the number of medication errors, including many which require hospitalisation. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2004-03-01 00:00:00 |
| Medication management website for nurses | A new website has been developed by the National Prescribing Service (NPS) to provide registered nurses working in residential aged care with access to resources to assist with medication management issues. |
Media release | Others | 2008-11-24 00:00:00 |
| MedicinesTalk No. 27 Spring 2008 edition | MedicinesTalk Spring 2008 has articles on managing someone’s medicines, reporting things when they go wrong, what to do with unwanted medicines and FAQs on Medicines Line. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2008-11-01 00:00:00 |
| Caring for carers...medicine resources make lives easier | More than one in eight Australians provide unpaid care to family members and friends who have a disability, mental illness, chronic condition, terminal illness or who are frail. This issue of MedicinesTalk highlights the role of carers, with tips for people who have to make decisions about another person’s health and medicines. National Carers Week runs from 19-25 October. |
Media release | Others | 2008-10-27 10:00:00 |
| Campaign to bridge cultural gaps | Later this year, the National Prescribing Service (NPS) and the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) are running a campaign to help people from different cultural backgrounds learn about medicines and how to use them safely. Find out why the campaign is needed. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2008-07-01 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. |
Corporate publication - Evaluation report | Research & Evaluation community | 2001-07-01 00:00:00 |
| Video: Get a check up for your medicines too, not just you | It’s important to ask your doctor once a year to check if you still need all your medicines. ‘I was absolutely aghast when she emptied out 30 tablets at breakfast. I said “You have to get that checked!”’ — Harold talks about his experience. |
Consumer resource - Story | Consumers | 2011-01-24 00:00:00 |
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Date published: 2010-12-17 00:00:00
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